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Scooby Tuba wrote:

Mike Johnson wrote:He's taken it one further and now wants a fibreglass one in the City's new corporate colour scheme............wait for it.........Shocking Pink!!!

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

If you're just going to paint it Pepto-Bismol pink, I'd think your best bet is just to find the balance between 'cheap' and 'reasonably in tune'

Indeed. Have Matt throw together one of the Bundy Bangers and ship it to you. At @ $700 plus shipping, you can't lose.

But, pink? This isn't a redux of "The Prisioner," now, is it?

Mike Johnson wrote:He's taken it one further and now wants a fibreglass one in the City's new corporate colour scheme............wait for it.........Shocking Pink!!!
Look at the logo in the top left corner
http://www.salford.gov.uk/living/yourco ... alford.htm

Make sure you are in disguise if you are carrying that!

There are a couple of conn fiberglass horns on ebay right now. One was nicely reonditioned for $895 buy it now. There are 2 or 3 others that are being bid on but the bids currently are only about $150.

ken k

Don't overlook the Olds fiberglass sousaphones! I played them in college and I owned several that I used with the youth band that I directed until I could afford brass horns. I thought they sounded pretty decent for being tupperware tubas.

I've played them also. There's an old Olds fiberglass in the Shrine closet in great shape, and I fixed a couple of niggles on it as well. I respectfully disagree. I thought it was hideous in terms of tone.

And its companion was a Buescher with a bore over .750, and fiberglass as well. Even worse. Nothing above bottom line G intonated with any clarity at all.

I'd recommend the guys sell them, but I don't want to saddle some poor schmuck with a lousy horn.

Bandmaster wrote:Don't overlook the Olds fiberglass sousaphones! I played them in college and I owned several that I used with the youth band that I directed until I could afford brass horns. I thought they sounded pretty decent for being tupperware tubas.

I agree I have three at my school whcih i use with my students. I think however the plasic tends to be a bit more brittle than others.

ken k

Mike Johnson wrote:

Bob1062 wrote:Mike, don't get caught by a photographer with a pink sousa!!

Don't worry I'm quite secure enough in who I am to have a Pink Sousa!
I think!

Mike

Not that there's anything wrong with that...