Let's talk about Kanstul tubas

[Ken Crawford]

When the Chinese build an instrument that can play like my Martin, I will be really impressed.

I traded my Martin for a BMB...because my BMB sounds better than my Martin did imho.

[Tubaman4]

Thank you so much Lee for being so informative. With this information I am leaning towards the 33s then.

[bort]

Lee, thank you very much for the great information. Reading your posts reminds me of how HUGE the difference is between someone like yourself who KNOWS stuff about stuff, and someone like me who... well, you get the point.

That's a good point about the startup costs involved, and while I know it's expensive, it's not my business, and it's easy for me to say what someone else should do with their money. Point taken... I'd like to think there's a market for it, but yeah, $150k+ would take a lot of tubas to be profitable.

As we've discussed, I'd LOVE to see how your rotary tuba turns out, but unfortunately it's just not in my budget now. Maybe I'll have some kind of extreme financial good fortune by the time you're ready to sell it. Either way, I'd love to at least play test it once you have it built!

One last work about Kanstul, then I think I'm ready to wrap this up -- I have a lot of respect for them to be able to manufacture musical instruments in the USA, and California is NOT a cheap place to do this. I'm glad they've found some recent success, and hope they can keep it up and be a globally relevant company for many years to come.

[Jerryleejr]

Coming from a king 2341, I'm gonna try a 33S this weekend. I'd love to keep the made in the USA going...

JJ