A Consumers Guide to Tubas

[patentnonsense]

great project - maybe set up a web site for it, so people can add to it over time?

Or maybe make it a wikipedia article.

And BTW there's a "Ziess" tuba not a Zeiss i think -

And just tracking down all the VMI stencils is a job too - what's the name Brook Mays used, before they were murdered by lawyers?

Good luck!

[pianolance]

So far a much clearer picture has emerged, at least to me, about what this Consumers Guide needs to be. It needs to be about what's being currently manufactured with objective summeries on "classics". It should try to untangle the whole "stenciling" picture as well as give objectiive observations about the quality of each horn. You folks are the best source of some of this information so keep following this thread because I am going to call on you for lots of help. Thanks again.

[LoyalTubist]

I wrote a Consumers' Guide for eBay Shoppers.

http://reviews.ebay.com/Buying-Tubas-a- ... 0000076812

I didn't include any brands in my guide because they are constantly changing.

[tubatom91]

maybe list the manufacturing standards of each tuba not nessicarily the personal opinion of tone or responsiveness.perhaps a poll for the quality of each horn would work out. personal opinions could be PM'd or emailed instead of the "shooting matches" of personal choices. It may be better if its like a product summary like found on websites selling tubas with a more in depth technical decription.
-just a thought

[pianolance]

Through these posts I am learning a remarkable amount about tuba manufacturers. If anyone has a clear picture of the Chinese manufacturer list as it is currently or knows how to cull that information I would be extremely grateful. Thanks.

[Tom Eshelman]

A fine tuba that seemed to fade out in the 90's was the Kurath.