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Anyone know anything about these? Do they hold value? Or are they just average, basic, tubas.....and lose value over time.....

Do you mean Rudolph Meiln tubas? I've never heard of Roland.

Hello,
Roland Meinl made quite good tubas. The Roland Meinl company is the same that is well known for cymbals and percussion.
I think the brass wind section of the company now is closed. I visited the Roland Meinl workshop in Markneukirchen Germany in
1995. They put together good rotary valve instruments. The piston instruments looked very Asian.....
I was told that the tubas were all German built. The Kaiser Bb I tried was very good! Very nice valves!

NDSPTuba wrote:Do you mean Rudolph Meiln tubas? I've never heard of Roland.

for one thing, it would have been Rudolf Meinl, but they are a different company.

I do know they make good cymbals! (The company, not the tubas.) I wasn't familiar with Roland tubas at all.

eupher61 wrote:

NDSPTuba wrote:Do you mean Rudolph Meiln tubas? I've never heard of Roland.

for one thing, it would have been Rudolf Meinl, but they are a different company.

I do know they make good cymbals! (The company, not the tubas.) I wasn't familiar with Roland tubas at all.

I don't know about Roland Meinl, but the Rudolf Meinl website tells us they make, besides tubas, also other brass instruments:

Rudof Meinl
Metallblasinstrumente
Blumenstraße 21
D-91456 Diespeck/Aisch
Tel.: 09161/87 60 60
Fax: 09161/87 60 61
Auslandsvorwahl: **49-(0)9161/ 87 60 60

Summary of types available:
Tubas
Baritones
Tenor- and French horns
Trombones
Concert- and jazz trumpets
Fanfares
Baroque instruments
Lyras
Orchestra chimes
Triangles and cymbals
Drum suspension hook
Piano components (pedals, keyboards)

check it out on the website:

http://www.rudolf-meinl.de/seite3.html

Wim

no, I really did mean Roland Meinl. Thanks for the info, Petter!

dwa

Hi dwaske,
somewhere in my archives I have got the Roland Meinl brass wind catalogue.If you need more info/pictures,
just e-mail me.
Best regards - Petter