New tuba at Dillon's

Alex F · Post by **Alex F** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:09 pm

I logged on to the Dillon Music site and saw, on the front page, an announcement for the "unveiling" of the new MW "Howard Johnson" tuba, scheduled for this Saturday. This was discussed here some time last summer.

Maybe Matt or Jason can give us a little "inside" info.

Alex F · Post by **Alex F** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:11 pm

Yea. . . Yea . . . just noticed the post in Upcoming Events.

Brassdad · Post by **Brassdad** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:31 pm

Is the bell RED

Lew · Post by **Lew** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:34 pm

Brassdad wrote:Is the bell RED

No, the Howard Johnson tuba should be blue with an Orange bell.

Daryl Fletcher · Post by **Daryl Fletcher** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:51 pm

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 5:07 pm

Regardless of the color or flavor, you know it will cost quite a few CLAMS!

tubeast · Post by **tubeast** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 2:49 am

Huh !?! New M-W tuba brand named "Howard Johnson"?

I expected this to be displayed or otherwise announced on the M-W website. The new horn mentioned there was named "Thor", and on the German version even that isnÂ´t mentioned, at least not in their "Instruments"-lineup.

Is this just some kind of marketing-thing to launch SOME new model on the American market ?

Alex F · Post by **Alex F** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 2:02 pm

Did anyone attend the MW "unveiling" at Dillon's yesterday? (That's Meinl-Weston, not Matt). Did anyone have a chance to play it?

Alex F · Post by **Alex F** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:14 pm

Must have been one heck of a beer party after the demo. Looks like no one has recovered enough to talk about it.

jlbreyer · Post by **jlbreyer** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:47 pm

Don't know what you-all are getting your knickers in a knot for - the Website says Sat 4 March for the grand event.

Alex F · Post by **Alex F** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 3:01 pm

Sorry about that . . . Having taken 8 Vicodin per day for the last ten days, with no end in sight, I'm not sure what I've seen or not seen. Excuse me . . . I need to feed the elephant in the living room.

Heck, I even had a dream that brassdad actually bought a tuba.

AF

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:46 pm

Yeah, but does he have the classic convertible?

Alex F · Post by **Alex F** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:34 pm

For those that have not checked "Upcoming Events" in a while, this info is now on MW's site:

http://www.meinl-weston.com/2011.htm

It's the new MW 2011 Howard Johnson Gravity or Heritage tuba.

4/4 size BBb tuba
4 valve
Bore: 17 mm, .669"
Bell: 44 cm, 17.2"
Height, 91 cm, 35.5"

3 flavors: 2011TA (top action), 2011FA (front action piston), and 2011RA (rotary valve)

sloan · Post by **sloan** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 2:08 am

jlbreyer wrote:Don't know what you-all are getting your knickers in a knot for - the Website says Sat 4 March for the grand event.

Hmmm...as it happens, I'll be driving through NJ on Saturday (and sleeping in Woodbridge Friday night). Looks like I'll have to drop by Dillon's on Saturday a.m.

JayW · Post by **JayW** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:32 am

iiipopes wrote:Regardless of the color or flavor, you know it will cost quite a few CLAMS!

quite the contrary, the horn will be priced quite reasonable (in terms of reality, not what some people think tubas "should" cost, not that i agree or disagree of course.)

JayW · Post by **JayW** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:38 am

Looking forward to meeting some fellow tubeneters

Remember... 3-5 @ dillons

6-8pm @ JJ Bittings BREWERY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:06 am

snorlax wrote:Is the top action a Mahillon clone? Bears resemblance to a BBb Mahillon.

meinl-weston.com wrote:New 4/4 BBb-Tuba series 2011 "Heritage Howard Johnson Gravity"

We developed this model series as the GRAVITY Heritage model with Howard Johnson based on his Belgian Mahillon Tuba of the 1960's .

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 11:10 am

the elephant wrote:I went beyond it. Howard Johnson's served "33 Flavors" (vs. the 31 Flavors of Baskin Robins). And nobody got it. Sniff, sniff . . . wah!

Aw, c'mon man! In this room, it's harder NOT to be hipper...

sloan · Post by **sloan** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 2:43 pm

sloan wrote:
jlbreyer wrote:Don't know what you-all are getting your knickers in a knot for - the Website says Sat 4 March for the grand event.
Hmmm...as it happens, I'll be driving through NJ on Saturday (and sleeping in Woodbridge Friday night). Looks like I'll have to drop by Dillon's on Saturday a.m.

Feh - I see that the unveiling is 3-5 and the fun really begins at.

Alas, by 3 I'll be at Ocean Grove, and by 6 I expect to be playing poker at the Trop in AC.

Oh, well.

In passing....when I visited the Dillon website, I was shocked to see that King is not listed. What did I miss?

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 2:53 pm

Is the top action model supposed to appeal to band directors? The same folks who buy, say, Yamaha YBB-321s?

I can't imagine pitiching a top-action instrument in the US to anyone else.