Factory tours in Czech Republic?

[MichaelDenney]

I am going to Prague next week for a 12-day vacation. Does anyone know whether any of the brass instrument manufacturers in the Czech Republic offer plant tours?

My web searches and queries haven't yielded an answer. Reportedly there are plants of the Amati/Cerveny group in Brno, Hradec Kralove, and Kralisce. Maybe I should take my old Cerveny rotary-valve bass trumpet back to Hradec Kralove where it was made. At least I wouldn't have to buy an extra airline seat for it!

[tuba kitchen]

i will be in austria in august and would like to take a trip from there to brno to try a josef lidl c-tuba; wrote them an e-mail 2 weeks ago, but no answer until now. maybe they are still on communist time...

[Ace]

Try this link for photos of the outside of the Cerveny factory in Hradec Kralove. (four photos at bottom of page)

http://www.amati.cz/english/foto/factory.htm

I don't know if they have tours for the public, but can't imagine why they wouldn't.

[king2ba]

Contact George Seger and tell him what you want to do. He's the one that can set things up. I've been to the Amati plant. It's a pretty good drive from the Cerveny plant, but only a short hop over the border from VMI, and I'm guessing that the new Besson plant would welcome you, too.

The Amati plant is impressive due to it's size and the way they work, but none of the products will blow your socks off. Cerveny may be different.

Hope this helps!

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[MichaelDenney]

Thank you for the info, gentlement! Now I just have to sell my pianist/violinist wife on spending a day of our vacation in a brass instrument factory...

[TubaRay]

Thank you for the info, gentlement! Now I just have to sell my pianist/violinist wife on spending a day of our vacation in a brass instrument factory...

Good luck on that!

[windshieldbug]

Thank you for the info, gentlement! Now I just have to sell my pianist/violinist wife on spending a day of our vacation in a brass instrument factory...

Just sneak up behind her, blindfold her, stick a piece of rosin under her nose, and yell "quiet in the section, quiet!"

[MichaelDenney]

Thank you, King2ba, for the contact information. I was able to get a response from the Czech Republic within a day. Unfortunately their plants are closed for vacation right now, so there are no tours. He said they are open in August (which is the opposite of many European countries where August is the vacation month).

If I understood the gentleman's message correctly, tours are only available at the Kralisce factory even when the plants are not on vacation, but I may have misunderstood. The Kralisce factory is an Amati-Denak production facility. If I go back some other year, I am going to try again to see the Cerveny factory.