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Matt K wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 12:19 pm If your profile picture is any indication about how you hold your horns, I will say it does look like a slight deviation from what I do and indeed what I see most players do. It looks a little on the 'high" side and hand rotated perhaps around your mouthpieces? That's possibly going bring an F attachment lever that is oriented to the left in contact with you. The reason the 356 and R2F don't is that the 356 is a right oriented trigger and so you are probably holding the horn with less of a rotation towards your face because it's basically impossible to do anything else. I don't know if the R2F is oriented similarly but the Rath geometry is very different from most other horns.

For what it's worth, the Bach style "footprint" (I say that rather than style because most horns have different geometry and shape to the paddle itself but the basic location of where the trigger is) is predominant for most contemporary F attachment horns. In other words, it isn't unusual for Bach horns to have that shape F attachment lever, nor is it unusual for contemporary horns to have that type of F attachment lever. So you would likely run into that issue on a lot of horns, not just the Bach.