Anyone have any Gmeinhardt CC reviews or info

[Alex C]

I haven't touched it but Don Harry played and commented on it. You can read what he said here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/1095046074 ... struments#

I'm looking forward to playing it early next year.

[Bob Kolada]

I played the Eb and F (Eb was better) but not the C at Midwest. Sorry, but I didn't see a point.

[bisontuba]

Hi-
If you go to any shows in early 2012--NAMM, Army Tuba Conf, Florida, Texas, Ohio, etc. the CC should be there to try.

The F tuba is incredible.

Mark

[bububassboner]

Played both the CC and the F tuba quite a bit during the convention. Here is my take.

CC: Would make a good brass quintet horn. All of these horns felt very lively and responded very fast. I personally found the low end to be stuffy. Pretty much anything using 4 and 5 was hard to blow. Does not have the power down low due to this. Yet if you use this mainly for Brass5 than that shouldn't be a huge problem. Personally, I think they need to do a redesign of the 5th valve linkage. Strange clockwork spring thing going on that needs a rubber band to move fast. Valves and slides were okay.

F: I liked this horn better. Very easy up high with a big sound. Had the same low range stuffiness as the CC but an F in my opinion, doesn't need "power" down there. If you need that use a CC. Same weird 5th valve linkage. Sounded great under the bell but my very fine Horn playing girlfriend really didn't like the sound at all. Said it has nothing special to the sound. She liked how I sounded on it better than the PT F tubas, but liked every other F tuba better than it sound wise.

I think for a cheap horn they are pretty good. I wonder if the dependent thing could be done better. Maybe making the 4th and 5th valves as "open wrap" as possible. I didn't miss the 235 combo on the F but really missed it on the CC.