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Any of you junior high or high school band directors have any experience with Winston tubas? After community band tonight, a junior high teacher mentioned that he bought some for his beginners. He doesn't have them yet and was interested in what I though of them. I had to concede that I've never seen one.

I've seen E M Winston tubas advertised for several years -- they appear to be Amati and Cerveny stencil horns (though I did just find an upright 3-valve that had more of a Weril/Jupiter/Yamaha look to it):

http://allmanmusic.homestead.com/Winstontubas.html

I tried several E.M. Winston tubas. The rotary versions I tried approx. 8 years ago, I guess were czech made.
They looked like Cervenys without the finishing touch. Quite good sound and intonation.
The piston horns I tried were among the worst I have ever played.