Euph for doubler - YEP-321 vs new Jinbao 3+1 compensator?

[tbn.al]

Beer attacks angst, and is commonly victorious. Beer is good. Good beer is heavenly.

[PMeuph]

The last ironic issue that I want to raise, is that Euphoniums are not Tubas! Players, composers, arrangers, and directors are sometimes guilty of treating the one like the other. A solid high range is ten-fold more important than a low range on the euphonium. The only B natural that should be a discussion topic among euph players is the High B.

I think they're more often/too often treat like FRENCH HORNS instead. There are too many alto and tenor instruments in a band to have euphs playing where they're stuck most of the time. I occasionally dream of an orchestral low brass section with 2 tenor trombones, 1 bass, 1 euphonium playing in the normal bass trombone range BUT linked more to the tuba, and 1 tuba. THAT would sound awesome and would have such a better transition of sounds!

Although the timbre is different, isn't this what happens in a Brass Band? (A Bb-An Eb, A Euph A Bass trombone, and Tenor trombones) Although the Euph isn't usually ascribed the role you seem to be yearning for, the Eb kind of does that....

[tokuno]

Yup. 3+1 compensating Jinbao is "on order". Perhaps it will have arrived when I return from next week in Germany.

Pleased?

[sloan]

Yes

[Ben]

Although, now it seems that you may need to trade that one in for the Gemeinhardt Eb, or at least so I've been told...

/troll

[Wyvern]

To quote a pro tubist trying the JinBao 3+1 compensator "It is not just a good tuba for the money - it would be a good tuba for any money!"

I am enjoying playing one just as much as my previous 1980's Besson 981 - it really is a fine tuba! (and I am saying that as player using one daily as my main tuba)

However it is great news that an economical front-valve Eb will be available in the form of the Gemeinhardt.