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Gabriel Tubas
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 6:51 pm
by CorporalCoward
Hello there, first time poster, but haven't found the answer to this question anywhere else!
I have been playing the school tuba for the past couple of years, and have seen the "Gabriel" tuba logo on the bell. I have searched for this brand on the Internet for quite a while, and come up short. So, I have resorted to asking the renowned TubeNet forums for help. Des anyone know this brand?
Thanks,
Neil
Re: Gabriel Tubas
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 4:31 am
by CorporalCoward
Here's the whole tuba
And here's the logo (kinda hard to see, it's very small)
Re: Gabriel Tubas
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 6:47 am
by sousaphone68
Now that you know a little more about your tuba can you share how it plays?
Does it have any challenges or quirks?
Re: Gabriel Tubas
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 10:00 am
by Dan Schultz
KiltieTuba wrote:"The GABRIEL range is made by the Jinyin Musical Instrument Company, renowned throughout the USA, Canada and many other countries for the quality of their instruments. ".....
Where did you get your information? .... mainly about this being a 'quality' instrument.
Re: Gabriel Tubas
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 12:05 pm
by k001k47
CorporalCoward wrote:the renowned TubeNet forums for
Hear that? We're "renowned"!
Re: Gabriel Tubas
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 12:41 pm
by Kevin Hendrick
k001k47 wrote:CorporalCoward wrote:the renowned TubeNet forums for
Hear that? We're "renowned"!
That's nice -- and it's a lot less work than being "reverbed"
verbed" verbed" verbed" verbed" ...
Re: Gabriel Tubas
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 1:36 pm
by Dan Schultz
the elephant wrote:TubaTinker wrote:KiltieTuba wrote:"The GABRIEL range is made by the Jinyin Musical Instrument Company, renowned throughout the USA, Canada and many other countries for the quality of their instruments. ".....
Where did you get your information? .... mainly about this being a 'quality' instrument.
That is Jinyin ad copy. I have read it on Alibaba in the past. Boilerplate stuff. More bang for the buck.
Thanks for the clarification. I was rather hoping that this WASN'T Ian's opinion!
Re: Gabriel Tubas
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 10:34 pm
by CorporalCoward
sousaphone68 wrote:Now that you know a little more about your tuba can you share how it plays?
Does it have any challenges or quirks?
Well, it's awful! I think what most annoys me is that the valves make an awful clunking sound, which I'm going to get fixed...
Re: Gabriel Tubas
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:03 am
by CorporalCoward
bloke wrote:CorporalCoward wrote:sousaphone68 wrote:Now that you know a little more about your tuba can you share how it plays?
Does it have any challenges or quirks?
Well, it's awful! I think what most annoys me is that the valves make an awful clunking sound, which I'm going to get fixed...
The way the finish is aging and engraving style are extremely similar to the "Sanders Imperial" Chinese tubas that are sold out of Michigan. Those are not terrible tubas...again, considerably better than the worn/leaky King that I played in high school. As to "awful clanking sounds", 100% of all rotary tubas (the $7000 ones from Germany) come into my shop from schools with precisely the same symptom.
Buying Chinese instruments may or may not have been the best thing for the school to do in the first place...but not fixing this one (which I bet can be made to perform well) and going out and buying something else (Chinese again?) to replace it, needlessly wastes the money of people struggling to pay taxes.
Yeah exactly, it just needs some good old fashioned TLC.
Re: Gabriel Tubas
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 10:20 am
by Dan Schultz
I completely agree (well... almost
) with Bloke on most of these earlier imports. They can usually be made to play OK but parents sometimes get really upset by the fact that they need to spend $300 or so on their kid's brand-new tuba to make a few 'adjustments'.
I think it was probably one of these tubas that I reversed for a fellow a while back. It actually played pretty good once it was taken apart and properly reassembled.