Posted by snicker... on November 15, 2003 at 18:16:23:
In Reply to: Best tuba for under $2500? posted by Brad on November 15, 2003 at 15:25:56:
The smaller Dynasty convertable tubas are made in Taiwan remarkably similar to Jupiter-Taiwan tooling
and the larger Dynasty convertable tubas are made by Kurath/Willson in Switzerland.
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Your best bet might be to try to purchase a "demo" 4/4 4-piston Weril 980S (no case) from a DEG dealer for just a bit more than $2500 and have a clever repairman buy the Yamaha 210M parts (since the Weril 980 is a complete copy of the Yamaha BB-321/201) and rig you up with a 4-valve silver convertable 4/4 convertable marching tuba for not too much more than $3000.
If you hold on to your money for a bit (in other words, WAIT), I believe that Weril is coming out with their OWN convertable/marching version of the 980...so you wouldn't have to after-market/customize it.
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Your "silver plated" requirement pretty much disqualifies any other option of quality.