Top 5 tuba brands

[tromboneaphone123]

I would like to know what the top 5 brands for each key of tuba is.
BBb
C
Eb
and F.
Not based necessarily on your favorite model of tuba but more on just, what companies make good tubas.

Also if anyone has a used Meinl weston, willson, miraphone, etc... that they are selling (CC 5/4 5 valves only) shoot me an email at tromboneaphone@gmail.com
Thanks guys,
Jim

[tooba]

There are MANY brands that have made or make great tubas. I have played on great tubas of well over a dozen different brands. But I WILL say that Meinl-Weston, B&S and Miraphone have been very industrious and innovative for a long time.

[Casca Grossa]

Mack Brass
Wessex Tubas
Big Bottom Brass
Dillon
JZ
Also M&M for their "Special" F tuba

[iiipopes]

Mack Brass
Wessex Tubas
Big Bottom Brass
Dillon
JZ
Also M&M for their "Special" F tuba

And I'd like five scoops of ice cream, please: vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, vanilla and vanilla.

[tubaforce]

Mack Brass
Wessex Tubas
Big Bottom Brass
Dillon
JZ
Also M&M for their "Special" F tuba

Thanks! But the OP is looking for the "best" not the most affordable or inexpensive...
Al

[Casca Grossa]

He did ask what companies put out good tubas. As to the vanilla comment...I happen to enjoy a good vanilla ice cream...especially scooped and rotated the same direction. IMHO...there are no vanilla tubas just vanilla players. Don't blame the horn blame the player. I have heard my fair share of players that made a Hirsbrunner sound like sugar-free, unflavored, ice milk.

Casca "who came make any horn sound like vanilla, chocolate, Cherry Garcia, or Phish Food" Grossa.

[Bob Kolada]

Can I say Miraphone 5 times?
Bb- the big boy (not super impressed, yet), 191 and 1291
C- 1291-3, all those rotary horns you guys like
Eb- Star and Star Lite; a piston model would be nice
F- 1281; I'm not so much a fan of their rotary models
euph- the 1258 is still my favorite comp euph ever

They also make 3+1 Eb's and Bb's, that big Marzan-like Bb, several smaller contrabasses, rotary euphs, bass trumpet, Bb and NOW C (!!) slide contrabass trombones,...

Give me a 1291 Bb, a 1281 F (straighten that 4th valve out some please), and maybe one of their smaller things and I'll probably shut for a long time.

[tooba]

He did ask what companies put out good tubas. As to the vanilla comment...I happen to enjoy a good vanilla ice cream...especially scooped and rotated the same direction. IMHO...there are no vanilla tubas just vanilla players. Don't blame the horn blame the player. I have heard my fair share of players that made a Hirsbrunner sound like sugar-free, unflavored, ice milk.

Casca "who came make any horn sound like vanilla, chocolate, Cherry Garcia, or Phish Food" Grossa.

You are a pretty funny guy, Casca.
But you listed dealers, not manufacturers (brands).

[SplatterTone]

Hattori Hanzo.
Not a well known brand. But it's the brand Beatrix Kiddo plays when she subs for Pokorny.

[Homerun]

Hattori Hanzo.
Not a well known brand. But it's the brand Beatrix Kiddo plays when she subs for Pokorny.

That's a good way to take out the entire string section like the nightclub scene.

[schlepporello]

Can I say Miraphone 5 times?

If you don't. I will.

[Neptune]

In no particular order;

Meinl-Weston/B&S
Rudolf-Meinl
Nirschl
Miraphone
Besson/B&H

The last for developing the compensated EEb, rather than their quality today