Hello,
I know this isn't the exact answer to your question, but give Lee Stofer a buzz, he is listed in the sponsors area. He has a GREAT smaller horn in the Lidl BBb. Compact, greatly made, and packs a real punch. And,they are affordable. Lee is one of the best in the business and will treat you right. Good luck.
Chuck
Stowasser tubas
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Chuck Jackson
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imperialbari
- 6 valves
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Stowasser was a family of instrument makers represented in the old Austrian double monarchy. In Graslitz in Bohemia, in Graz in Austria, and in Budapest in Hungary, if not in more places.
As far as I can trace these old Central European instruments, the original family didn’t produce much after WWI and nothing after WWII.
They had a big market in Spain and were represented in Verona in Italy.
When I during my hunting stuff for my galleries saw some Stowasser’s with suspiciously different engravings, I contacted one of my main reference persons in Germany. Through his network he found out, that the modern Stowasser instruments just represented an abuse of a famed name, insofar that these brass-look-alikes are made on the Chinese mainland.
I have no important opinions on the relationship between mainland China and Taiwan (or Formosa, which was the name I was taught in my geography lessons far too many decades ago).
But when it comes to brass instruments, then I will go Taiwanese any day. If you search among Jupiter instruments, you will find fine samples among the better models. I have 3 of them for my own use.
But I would stay away from "modern" Stowasser instruments.
Stowasser instruments are extensively represented in my galleries. Please refer to the link in my signature.
Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre
(It is no vanity, that I from now on will use my full name, but I get a lot of questions in private mails on matters I already have written on. So I simply want to make it easier to find my own texts via Google. There is no other person with my permutation of names. My first name is German/Nordic in its spelling. My middle and last names are uniquely Danish)
As far as I can trace these old Central European instruments, the original family didn’t produce much after WWI and nothing after WWII.
They had a big market in Spain and were represented in Verona in Italy.
When I during my hunting stuff for my galleries saw some Stowasser’s with suspiciously different engravings, I contacted one of my main reference persons in Germany. Through his network he found out, that the modern Stowasser instruments just represented an abuse of a famed name, insofar that these brass-look-alikes are made on the Chinese mainland.
I have no important opinions on the relationship between mainland China and Taiwan (or Formosa, which was the name I was taught in my geography lessons far too many decades ago).
But when it comes to brass instruments, then I will go Taiwanese any day. If you search among Jupiter instruments, you will find fine samples among the better models. I have 3 of them for my own use.
But I would stay away from "modern" Stowasser instruments.
Stowasser instruments are extensively represented in my galleries. Please refer to the link in my signature.
Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre
(It is no vanity, that I from now on will use my full name, but I get a lot of questions in private mails on matters I already have written on. So I simply want to make it easier to find my own texts via Google. There is no other person with my permutation of names. My first name is German/Nordic in its spelling. My middle and last names are uniquely Danish)
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Ulli
- 3 valves
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Dave,
Stowasser is a trade-name from Amati- Denak, Czechien. They also produce Cerveny. Look at the homepage from Amati- Denak.
The predecessor- name from Stowasser is Lignatone.
I tested the Stowasser 4v with the 40 cm bell: If sometime I buy a new instrument, it will be that Stowasser or the Dalyan Comfort.
Ulli ( from Germany)
Stowasser is a trade-name from Amati- Denak, Czechien. They also produce Cerveny. Look at the homepage from Amati- Denak.
The predecessor- name from Stowasser is Lignatone.
I tested the Stowasser 4v with the 40 cm bell: If sometime I buy a new instrument, it will be that Stowasser or the Dalyan Comfort.
Ulli ( from Germany)