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Plastic euphonium

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2016 6:43 pm
by gregsundt
I guess I should have known about it, but I just heard today about plastic euphs (and tubas!!)

Are these any good? Why are they $1000? What size shank do they take?

A friend is asking whether these are close enough to the "real thing" to consider one. He plays hymns at the nursing home, and a lighter weight horn would be a real help. But he plays a 1 1/2 or 2G; needs a large receiver.

Re: Plastic euphonium

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2016 8:33 pm
by bisontuba
Hi-
You can do better than $1,000. I believe small shank.

http://www.amazon.com/Tiger-PEU-05-Plas ... B00XH7WXFI" target="_blank

I know nothing about how they play....

Re: Plastic euphonium

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 1:46 pm
by ndh3425
plastic euphonium is not very good it would break if i had one

Re: Plastic euphonium

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 10:55 pm
by Tom Coffey
I am surprised so many seem to be made in black. It must be possible to produce these in more appealing color schemes, ala the P-bone.

Re: Plastic euphonium

Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2016 7:28 am
by pgym
58mark wrote:out of the dozens of instruments that I personally played this year, that was the only one that had even a hiccup of a valve problem

even if the 4th valve had worked perfectly, it was still a terrible sounding instrument
Well, duh!

It's not a WIND instrument, it's a PERCUSSION instrument. Says so right on the booth sign:

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You're supposed to beat on it. :tuba: :tuba: :tuba: