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Inderbinen, a small Swiss company has recently started making euphoniums. Almost makes me want to play euph again. All completely hand-made. About $12K.

I e-mailed these folks almost a year ago to see if they had any plans to make a tuba. They didn't at the time, but I think the addition of this euph is a great start. I've heard their saxes and trumpets on recordings: tasty!



http://www.inderbinen.com/Page_e/Euphonium_e.html

circusboy wrote:Inderbinen, a small Swiss company has recently started making euphoniums. Almost makes me want to play euph again. All completely hand-made. About $12K.

When they say "completely hand-made" what does that mean, exactly? Just about any tuba/euphonium is completely hand made--at least no one's reported a tuba-assembling machine yet.

For $12K and no buffing, you deserve a very detailed answer.

Chuck(G) wrote:For $12K and no buffing, you deserve

... at least a kiss before you get @$#%ed

Tough room.

This company (a total of seven employees) makes everything by hand. They may have some nice tools, but I don't think they machine much of anything.

Click here for a pic of the owner making a trumpet.

http://www.inderbinen.com/index_e.html

cool

Monette proved the market was there.

(and more power to them! )

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Has to be the most gawdy looking horn I've ever seen.

circusboy wrote:Tough room.

This company (a total of seven employees) makes everything by hand. They may have some nice tools, but I don't think they machine much of anything.

Click here for a pic of the owner making a trumpet.

http://www.inderbinen.com/index_e.html

But there's still no answer to the question about "hand made".

Does this mean no power tools are used? Bells must be spun, valves must be machined, tubing must be drawn. Roughing out a bell before spinning it looks pretty much like any number of lesser-priced shops.

Is handmade better than machine made?

I need more information.

Chuck(G) wrote:But there's still no answer to the question about "hand made"

Is handmade better than machine made?

I need more information

It's simple. Everything is made from hands bought on the illicit body-part market. That's why they cost as much as they do.

schlepporello wrote:Sorry.
I'm a "bling" kinda guy and raw brass on a new horn doesn't quite cut it for me. I'm not gonna spend five figures on a horn that looks like a straightened out band room reject. If I'm gonna spend that much on a horn, it'd better sparkle and shine. I'll work on the sound myself.

Well, there's always this:



I'll sell you a can for only $399.54...

Man... the angle on that leadpipe CAN'T be right!

Those New Orleans whorehouses will get going again any day now. And they're going to need band instruments.

I wonder where the phasers and photon torpedos go.

I handled one of those euphs at the National Finals, Royal Albert Hall in October.

Glyn Williams of Fodens was raving about it (but does'nt play one in the band!) and brought it back from the Frankfurht music show. I could'nt blow it, but the valves were superb, and it seemed very well made indeed, though the bell was quite thin and had already been creased.

CB