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Is there any significance between the "fancy" and "normal" styles of engraving on Meinl-Weston tubas?

For example, this is the "fancy" (loopy/floral):

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This is the "normal" (logo):
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What about the engraving on mine? Imported by Getzen?
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bort wrote:Is there any significance between the "fancy" and "normal" styles of engraving on Meinl-Weston tubas?
The fancy engraving is usually applied specially to hand-made tubas, and the normal to standard production tubas.

If I remember correct, the special engraving added several hundred pounds to the price - I had on my hand-made 2040/5 Eb
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