Jupiter 780?

[TBow]

What is the general opinion of the Jupiter 780? Pros/Cons?
http://www.jupitermusic.com/jbi_instrum ... =1&pId=165" target="_blank
Thanks

[oldbandnerd]

The General is a trumpet player and has no opinion of any other instrument but his own.

[tubaguy9]

Why does Jupiter like to make their valves as hard to get to as possible?

[J.c. Sherman]

Why does Jupiter like to make their valves as hard to get to as possible?

I've never had a problem... from whom are you ordering?

[tubaguy9]

It's not a part ordering thing I'm talking about...it's that (in my experience, anyway) Jupiter wraps as much tubing around the valves and seems to make them as hard to get to as possible.
As an example, what's the 3/4 Jupiter with the upright valves? The only one that's accessible on both ends is the second. Which makes it a real PITA to take the valves out when the horn is inevitably beat up by the school kid.
And have you had a stuck main tuning slide on one that's really stuck? What a PITA!
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[J.c. Sherman]

It's not a part ordering thing I'm talking about...it's that (in my experience, anyway) Jupiter wraps as much tubing around the valves and seems to make them as hard to get to as possible.
As an example, what's the 3/4 Jupiter with the upright valves? The only one that's accessible on both ends is the second. Which makes it a real PITA to take the valves out when the horn is inevitably beat up by the school kid.
And have you had a stuck main tuning slide on one that's really stuck? What a PITA!
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Okay... this I agree with!! BUT, it is nice to have the removable bells and valve sections. Sort of evens things out.

[tubaguy9]

I wish that horn had a removable valve section...That horn needs a removable valve section more than a removable bell...
Anyways, sorry for going off on a soapbox. I just saw too many of them with too many repairs needed in the past year, and I have gotten very tired of them.
Buy Jupiter anything but tubas. The sousas are fine, and everything else is fine. Just the tubas seem to be a real PITA.

[Kevin Hendrick]

... what's the 3/4 Jupiter with the upright valves? The only one that's accessible on both ends is the second. Which makes it a real PITA to take the valves out when the horn is inevitably beat up by the school kid.

I wish that horn had a removable valve section...That horn needs a removable valve section more than a removable bell...

Must be the 378 -- the 382 (according to their web site) has a removable valve section (as does the 780 -- just to get us back on topic ).