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I play semi-professionally and have always needed to have my tuning slide out a little farther than most people playing the same horns. Generally, I'm out about 1" give or take. I'm looking at horns with tuning in the slide. Would being out 1" or so cause issues with playing that type of horn? Would the slide be awkwardly long or would there be other issues?

Thanks for your input.

Most TIS slides have at least 1 inch (25 mm) of extension for the tuning section. All this does is move the end of the slide further out, but the inner slide is the same. You may find some balance change if the slide becomes a lot longer, but I've never noticed it on my TIS trombones.

Moving the tuning slide on a TIS slide moves the "entire" outer slide. Not just the end. Because of the way tis slides are made, moving the tuning slide out a certain distance reduces the available maximum slide extension length on the slide by that amount. Meaning, your 7th position may not be available. If I was making a new instrument for a player, and knew they played that sharp, I would accommodate that in the design/construction. Obviously that isn't possible on older instruments.

I tend to play way sharp too, and I play a TIS bass. The biggest problem it presents for me is putting the slide in the case. If you extend the tuning slide far enough, the slide will be too long for the case, of course, depending on what case you use. I never really notice the extra extension while playing.

1" pulled sounds to me like you're just tuning to play short on the slide, not that you actually play sharp. 1" is nothing.

You can and should push in most of the way, and use the TIH mechanism. It's lighter and superior to TIS.