YAMAHA Customシリーズ のそれまでの軽くて吹きやすい特性をオケプロのバックやシルキープレーヤーに受けなかった理由を払拭するために10年がかりで開発された希少な Heavy Weight Model で、合奏時に埋もれがちと言われたYAMAHAを音の輪郭[Edge]を際立たせ、より遠鳴りするように世に送り出した、YAMAHAの中期モデルの祖とも言うべきモデルとなります。  90年代のXENOの原器と言われています。

Heavy Weight Model と言っても、Schilke B2ベルに換装しているため重量は1080gで、YTR8335の1079gと差して変わりません。 しかしながら、サウンドはより太くTightで遠鳴りする素晴らしい奏感です。  

YAMAHA 11 マウスピース と リュックタイプのセミハードケースが付属します。 

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Driven by designers with a strong passion to create an instrument that would be played in orchestras around the world, the Xeno trumpet series was born in 1990. “Xeno” is a Greek word that can mean “from the outside” or “foreign”. Our designers had poured their passion and dedication into a new instrument that would be able to compete in the most acclaimed orchestras worldwide, and that effort was realized in 1986 when the YTR-8335HS, Yamaha’s first heavyweight model and the immediate forerunner of the Xeno series, was released globally. The YTR-8335HS was a success, highly valued for its ability to blend in an orchestral setting while maintaining a distinctive, powerful tone. Our experience with that instrument was combined with feedback from players and applied to the development of the YTR-8335US, which became the fi rst model to actually bear the “Xeno” name. Consistent with the “Xeno” designation, top players and technicians from the United States, United Kingdom and other countries participated in countless prototype tests as well as the production of countless parts. Testing went right down to the molecular level with new materials, parts production methods, rigidity and tonal qualities all on the agenda. All of this was sensitively combined in microscopic detail with traditional methods of experienced craftsmen to engender a new “Xeno spirit” that offers unprecedented playability and tone that continually grows and evolves with artists’ needs.