Schiller

[TUBAD83]

Pros playing knock-offs:
In order to get a job in a major orchestra you need to be a God. If you'd be that good of a lawyer, you'd be making more than 10X the salary of a tuba God.
To get a job with a smaller or "per service" orchestra, you still need to have skills that have cost you personally and financially in order to get that job. Let's say you need to be a "Saint". These gigs pay less than your average plumbing jobs and I don't see plumbers with a basement full of $7,000 to $21,000 tools. It's not what you play but how you play that counts. I have no shame about having one of those knock-offs in my arsenal.

A couple of questions for our professional colleagues: 1) What would be your criteria for assessing a "knock-off" (or a "reproduction"...is there a difference?) and if it met your criteria, would you recommend it to your students?; 2) In your opinion, is it fair to compare a knock-off to the original and have the expectation that it will perform as well or even close to the original?

[Sylvano]

I just received the Schiller 5v C.
It's amazing.
Very nice sound, construction and it plays very well. No bad notes. It looks like a Miraphone 186.
I paid $785 case (and mp) included.
The bell is damaged but it will roll out nicely.

It blows better than the Bb Schiller-brunner and now I really have to think of selling something.
That's the part I hate.
I'm reluctant to sell my Rudy 4/4 because it really plays like / is a 5/4 and there are these concerts where I need the volume without the barking.
The PT20P is still the most clean and versatile horn.
What to sell?