Any decent Chinese Piston F tuba out there?

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Any decent Chinese Piston F tuba out there?

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Are there any decent Chinese Piston F tubas out there? I know about the BMB F, but are there any others out there and How do they play? Looking for input from people who have tried any
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Eastman should have one out soon. The prototype had great pitch. When I say soon within a year.
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I remember talking to Chuck about it, and I completely forgot about that one.
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bloke wrote:Doesn't Wisemann offer a knock-off of that Italian-made piston F tuba?
Wisemann doesn't seem to make tubas anymore. I think they've gone completely to making Melodicas and kazoos.
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Wessex will have out two models of piston valve F tubas in the next year, one compensated based on the British F (in both 3+1 and front piston configurations) and the other a new original design
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Is there any info available for the non compensating F tuba design?
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Is there any info available for the non compensating F tuba design?
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Reguarding the wisemann f tuba. A while back I emailed the U.S. distributor and he said they had several of the f tubas left. I didn’t persue it. He quoted 3890.00, that may have been wholesale.
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There could not have been one much worse than the original firebird clone !?
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DouglasJB wrote:Is there any info available for the non compensating F tuba design?
Not at this stage - we have been through 5 prototypes already in the quest to perfect. Some new models work out perfect first time, while others go through much evolution before good enough to release
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