Nirschl "5/4"


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Posted by Patrick Sheridan on July 10, 2000 at 08:10:51:

I was very curious about the previous thread regarding sizes of tubas by Walter Nirschl.
Mostly because the whole "quarter" issue was one I delved into while working on my MBA. It was a marketing class and my paper included the subject of selling tubas. My contention at the time (6 years ago) was that the "quarter" issue was developed by the instrument sellers as a hook to fill a desire by customers for bigger and bigger (which then equated to better and better) Anyway, I wrote Walter directly yesterday and this was his response about his CC tubas...

"There has been only two sizes of CC-Tubas. The 4/4 and the York Copy (6/4).
There has been different steps while developping the 4/4 size, but all the rest is marketing at Custom. The York Copy is at the moment the only completely hand made one, I'm working on doing a hand made 4/4 size."

Clear enough. The great news for hand-made fans is that he is working on the full-size instrument in hand-made!

Anyway, steps of development as they are...nice to have the clarification from the source.

Best regards,
Pat


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