Tornistertuba Needed!

[Tuba Guy]

It's on mornings like this (not enough time between classes to go back to my dorm for the tuba) that I really wished I had one of these Tornisters...lugging the Kaiser back and forth across campus is gunna be really bad for my back....

[imperialbari]

It's on mornings like this (not enough time between classes to go back to my dorm for the tuba) that I really wished I had one of these Tornisters...lugging the Kaiser back and forth across campus is gunna be really bad for my back....

I see the easier transportation, and I may end up with one some day. Yet people at the same time are crazy about Holton 345 and other big models.

One purpose I could see for the Jestädt is in amplified dance bands with extended performances. With a good equalizer the function of the tuba could be reduced to a sound trigger providing rhythmic and dynamic input. I was highly surprised the first time I realised the difference between the drum sound out of the PA and the sound out of the same, but unamplified, drum set.

Klaus

[RanmaSyaoran]

Klaus, do you happen to have any links to any BBb Cimbasso's?

[imperialbari]

Klaus, do you happen to have any links to any BBb Cimbasso's?

Not on top of my memory. The ones I saw documented were

a Bach Stradivarius 4P very rare one sold via the sales section of TN

an old Bohland and Fuchs 4RV with their Milano branch in the engraving

a Kalison 4P on their site, while they still were in business

an Orsi trombone shaped one somewhere and then their narrow Verdi tuba:

http://www.orsi-wind-instruments.it/tuba.htm

In the US Sam Gnagey and in the UK Mike Johnson have made interesting cimbassos partially out of parts pilfered from other types of brasses.

Klaus

[Cameron Gates]

$6243. Hmmmmmm......

Tell me again why Cerveny or a chinese company can't make one of these and keep it below $3000 US? After all, it seems to me the only real market for these things is for practice while traveling (or if you live in a very small space).

If Cerveny would crank out a product this size that took a standard tuba mouthpiece shank and produced a semi-close tuba "feel", I'd buy one. Others would too.

$6243.............ain't gunna happen.

Let's get on it Vaclav.

[imperialbari]

Tried to find the Orsi BBb cimbasso illustrated. In vain. However it is on their list of instruments made on request. Look for C/Bass under trombone:

http://www.orsi-wind-instruments.it/surichiesta.htm

Klaus

[jamsav]

saw a 3/4 Besson BBb on that auction site- 13" bell- maybe ????

[Wyvern]

I dropped in on Jestädt "House of Music" and tried their tubas on Friday.

I must say I was not impressed! The small F was very stuffy and did not make me sound good at all I would soon get demoralised practicing on one of these, so IMHO is no substitute for the M-W travel tuba (which in contrast plays incredibly well).

The Bb was a lot better in tone and more open to play, although I thought the intonation possibly suspect, although did not check with tuner. The Bb might well be of use to OP.