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Belltrouble wrote:Has anybody any experience with one of these instruments ?
And some spares perhaps????

Got one in horrible shape and worked out that they are still on the Amati website.
seems to be a student/beginner model tuba ,mine appears to have been used as the filling of a punching ball in a gym............
any coments apreciated!!!

Thanks,

Kurt

I have one of these in acceptable condition and it plays like a beginner's horn. Keep it midrange in the staf and it's fine. It uses a small shank mouthpiece and I use (and many have suggested) a Denis Wick 3L. That's kind of a bass trombone MP. but it seems to work well. Go lower than C and the sound poops out and above the staff it runs out of juice. If you can get it to work with a minimum of expense, go ahead. If you don't like it, maybe a kid could start out on it. If it's going to take multiple hundres of dollars (I'd say $200) to get it to play, I'd turn it into a wall hanging.