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I am looking for a valve trombone at a reasonable price for a small budget. I'm too old to try to learn how to play a slide trombone. Does anyone have any feedback on the those coming from India?

Your money is better spent on a Chinese instrument...items from India--beware!
Mark

Ditto.

bisontuba wrote:...items from India--beware!
Mark

+1

I once bought a small sousaphone from India. Crap!

Speaking of Indian brass instruments......has anyone here played the "big" (normal sized) sousaphone If nothing else, the bracing on that thing looks very robust....

I've seen a few of the horns that are made in India. All have been basically unplayable. Intonation is horrid and the threaded parts are terrible.

He's asking about a valve trombone. Those hardly qualify as real instruments as it is, so it doesn't really matter that it comes from India. If it won't play, oh well, you lost $50.

10 years from now we'll all accept Chinese instruments as high quality and the first "good" instruments will start rolling out of India being imported and stenciled by several different importers to the US and Europe...

I have my doubts about Indian instruments going the route of the Chinese ones; there is a different culture at work, and I've seen some things that indicate we won't see the same progression. A large international company started building power transformers in a factory in India, and the factory passed all the certifications to make them. My former employer bought two, and they were trash. The cultural viewpoint was that after the certifications were passed, nothing mattered any more and they could just throw the thing together. Certifications were just for show. So there were major failures upon inspection before being put into service, (such things as it would melt down if power were sent to it) and they had to be sent back to be re-done, postponing for at least a year very important system upgrades that they were intended for, affecting reliability.

I'd take a ship to India to get cut up for scrap, but I wouldn't have one built there...

Thank y'all who responded to my question about horns form India. I'm actually a tuba player who is too old to learn how to play a slide trombone so I;m trying to go the easy route. Y'all confirmed my suspicions. Hey Anonymouse, if a valve trombone is not really an instrument why is Cervenney making them in the Chec Republic.

I have a Bach Strad valve trombone, and my bone playing friends love it. Don't be afraid to get a nice one (mine came used with a Bach 16 hand slide as a two-for-one). It was half the price of new at the time.