Re: ATTENTION EUPHONIUM VENDORS!!
Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 8:02 am
I can relate. At my first Midwest show in 1978, I was shopping for my first tuba. The only vendor that appeared to be serious about having instruments that really worked, and sales associates that really worked, was Custom Music Company. By the end of the day, they had earned my business, I wrote a check and bought a Rudi 3/4 CC.
Several other vendors were displaying instruments that in retrospect were aimed at school systems, but shouldn't their valves be operable? Maybe it was that the sales associates at these booths were intent upon schmoozing with band directors, which is where volume profits lay for them, and they felt they could ignore the college kid. In contrast, Dan Perantoni, Robert Tucci and Fred Marrich gave me personal attention, and real help. There is no substitute.
Several other vendors were displaying instruments that in retrospect were aimed at school systems, but shouldn't their valves be operable? Maybe it was that the sales associates at these booths were intent upon schmoozing with band directors, which is where volume profits lay for them, and they felt they could ignore the college kid. In contrast, Dan Perantoni, Robert Tucci and Fred Marrich gave me personal attention, and real help. There is no substitute.
