Posted by Urbie Watrous on August 21, 2000 at 14:53:59:
In Reply to: Re: JIN BAO euphoniums posted by Rick Denney on August 21, 2000 at 14:25:54:
Thanks for the input -- guess I'll, er, bao out of the bidding!
I have an old Conn double-bell euph (very old -- it says "Worcester, Mass." on the bell, and I think the Worcester factory burned down in 1896) that sounds good but is in bad shape -- valves leak like a sieve, so I have to slather heavy oil all over them if I want to play the thing. I got an estimate of several hundred bucks to fix the valves, and I'm not sure whether to do that or look for another horn. I use it mostly for jazz.
Reading a bit further down on the board, the consensus does seem to be that the Chinese horns are junk, so I'll stay away from them....
Urb