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Well... EXACTLY what is this?
Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 11:24 pm
by Dan Schultz
Re: Well... EXACTLY what is this?
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 2:18 am
by daveinem
I have been asking myself this question for weeks. A clone in raw brass?
Re: Well... EXACTLY what is this?
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 5:32 am
by Tubaman2365
Re: Well... EXACTLY what is this?
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 8:51 am
by Dan Schultz
So this a custom horn made of components from Besson, Yamaha, & Miraphone?
The ad came across to me as something out of The Orient. Sorry.
Re: Well... EXACTLY what is this?
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 8:56 am
by The Big Ben
The text says a buyer can have it silver plated for an extra 1000 pounds sterling. Whee!
Re: Well... EXACTLY what is this?
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 11:05 am
by Tubaman2365
TubaTinker wrote:
So this a custom horn made of components from Besson, Yamaha, & Miraphone?
The ad came across to me as something out of The Orient. Sorry.
No, it's basically a besson 995, it just can't be stenciled as such.
Re: Well... EXACTLY what is this?
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 8:37 pm
by Alex C
Looks like a lot of dent work done on the bottom bow. Still a good deal for the right person.
Re: Well... EXACTLY what is this?
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 8:48 pm
by bort
Sure looks like a Besson, but who knows. FWIW, the two Besson 995s I tried were both stinkers with very poor intonation. It sure didn't help them that I play tested next to a Nirschl handmade tuba, which looked the same, but played a bazillion times better (and cost a bazillion times more).
Re: Well... EXACTLY what is this?
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 10:09 pm
by Tubaman2365
I don't think that is dent work on the bottom bow, I think it is finger prints on the raw brass. I didn't seem them live though.
Re: Well... EXACTLY what is this?
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 6:38 am
by tuba.bobby
From what my old teacher told me they are Besson 995's left over from the old factory in Watford. He bought two off the guy and plays them with the CBSO