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I logged on to the Dillon Music site and saw, on the front page, an announcement for the "unveiling" of the new MW "Howard Johnson" tuba, scheduled for this Saturday. This was discussed here some time last summer.

Maybe Matt or Jason can give us a little "inside" info.

Yea. . . Yea . . . just noticed the post in Upcoming Events.

Is the bell RED

Brassdad wrote:Is the bell RED

No, the Howard Johnson tuba should be blue with an Orange bell.

Regardless of the color or flavor, you know it will cost quite a few CLAMS!

Huh !?! New M-W tuba brand named "Howard Johnson"?

I expected this to be displayed or otherwise announced on the M-W website. The new horn mentioned there was named "Thor", and on the German version even that isn´t mentioned, at least not in their "Instruments"-lineup.

Is this just some kind of marketing-thing to launch SOME new model on the American market ?

Did anyone attend the MW "unveiling" at Dillon's yesterday? (That's Meinl-Weston, not Matt). Did anyone have a chance to play it?

Must have been one heck of a beer party after the demo. Looks like no one has recovered enough to talk about it.

Don't know what you-all are getting your knickers in a knot for - the Website says Sat 4 March for the grand event.

Sorry about that . . . Having taken 8 Vicodin per day for the last ten days, with no end in sight, I'm not sure what I've seen or not seen. Excuse me . . . I need to feed the elephant in the living room.

Heck, I even had a dream that brassdad actually bought a tuba.

AF

Yeah, but does he have the classic convertible?

For those that have not checked "Upcoming Events" in a while, this info is now on MW's site:

http://www.meinl-weston.com/2011.htm

It's the new MW 2011 Howard Johnson Gravity or Heritage tuba.

4/4 size BBb tuba
4 valve
Bore: 17 mm, .669"
Bell: 44 cm, 17.2"
Height, 91 cm, 35.5"

3 flavors: 2011TA (top action), 2011FA (front action piston), and 2011RA (rotary valve)

jlbreyer wrote:Don't know what you-all are getting your knickers in a knot for - the Website says Sat 4 March for the grand event.

Hmmm...as it happens, I'll be driving through NJ on Saturday (and sleeping in Woodbridge Friday night). Looks like I'll have to drop by Dillon's on Saturday a.m.

iiipopes wrote:Regardless of the color or flavor, you know it will cost quite a few CLAMS!

quite the contrary, the horn will be priced quite reasonable (in terms of reality, not what some people think tubas "should" cost, not that i agree or disagree of course.)

Looking forward to meeting some fellow tubeneters


Remember... 3-5 @ dillons



6-8pm @ JJ Bittings BREWERY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

snorlax wrote:Is the top action a Mahillon clone? Bears resemblance to a BBb Mahillon.

meinl-weston.com wrote:New 4/4 BBb-Tuba series 2011 "Heritage Howard Johnson Gravity"

We developed this model series as the GRAVITY Heritage model with Howard Johnson based on his Belgian Mahillon Tuba of the 1960's .

the elephant wrote:I went beyond it. Howard Johnson's served "33 Flavors" (vs. the 31 Flavors of Baskin Robins). And nobody got it. Sniff, sniff . . . wah!

Aw, c'mon man! In this room, it's harder NOT to be hipper...

sloan wrote:

jlbreyer wrote:Don't know what you-all are getting your knickers in a knot for - the Website says Sat 4 March for the grand event.

Hmmm...as it happens, I'll be driving through NJ on Saturday (and sleeping in Woodbridge Friday night). Looks like I'll have to drop by Dillon's on Saturday a.m.

Feh - I see that the unveiling is 3-5 and the fun really begins at.

Alas, by 3 I'll be at Ocean Grove, and by 6 I expect to be playing poker at the Trop in AC.

Oh, well.

In passing....when I visited the Dillon website, I was shocked to see that King is not listed. What did I miss?

Is the top action model supposed to appeal to band directors? The same folks who buy, say, Yamaha YBB-321s?

I can't imagine pitiching a top-action instrument in the US to anyone else.