Stealthy

Captain Sousie · Post by **Captain Sousie** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 2:50 pm

Has anyone tried out one of the Hirsbrunner 'Stealth' euphs? If so, how do they play/sound? Are they worth the extra $? I am just curious as to whether hirsbrunner has stooped to a new low of flashy marketing gimicks.

Sousie

http://www.custommusiccorp.com/tubas/euphs.html

Tubaryan12 · Post by **Tubaryan12** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 3:09 pm

I've never played one but I can tell you this: There will be no one you know with a better looking horn. There was a young lady that played one last summer in the community band I play in and it looks so good I want to do the black nickle/gold to my Marzan

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 5:43 pm

bloke wrote:I'm going to have to (eventually) get brave and play around with that finish for "fun"...

- buff the instrument out to a smooth not-particularly-shiny finish
- nickel plate it (so it ends up super-shiny anyway)
- lacquer over the nickel plating with translucent black lacquer (regular lacquer with a translucent black tint added)
- engrave it (as the engraving will cut all the way through back to the brass, and look "extra cool")

Heck, Joe, why bother with the lacquer? Why not just have it black nickel or black chrome-plated? The finish seems to be pretty popular with the guitar crowd:

Bandmaster · Post by **Bandmaster** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 9:26 pm

I saw a Yamaha euphonium fixed up this way at the Yamaha display during the NAMM Show last week. It definately looks cool....

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 9:34 pm

bloke wrote:
Heck, Joe, why bother with the lacquer? Why not just have it black nickel or black chrome-plated?

cost. I'd rather pay Anderson $75 to "regular" nickel plate it, than pay some other place who-knows-how-much-$$$ for the black nickel stuff....

If it's cheap you want, a can of this sufficient to do several good-sized tubas shouldn't set you back more than 20 bucks or so...

..and NO BUFFING!

(I actually bought a tuba done up like that to cover up the badly worn silverplate. Ugly as sin, but a great player...