hrender wrote: Wed Jan 05, 2022 5:11 pmI saw that one. The CBB-684 model looks interesting. I'm curious how it plays (response and intonation) and sounds.

This is the post that got me interested in this horn in the first place:
http://forums.chisham.com/viewtopic.php?p=646065

Other than that, I know nothing.

FWIW there are new Cervenys in stock at multiple European shops, according to their websites, for example:
https://www.musikhaus-geiger.de/Cerveny ... anguage=en

I would never buy a new car because of how quickly they depreciate. Musical instruments, not the same. Aesthetically I like older tubas, but I have a weird premonition that I'll be taking a serious look at a new 496 or similar large rotary BBb in a couple of years.

My "Just found a box of 25 tuba mouthpieces while putting away my elf costume" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

FWIW here's that recording above the bell fed through the default Audacity reverb, settings midway between their medium and large room presets, then normalized to peak at 0 dB:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lKKwBH ... nZlLA/view

And just like that I'm back on my vault-the-common-rooms pipe dream

I live in a 1950s ranch-style with 8 foot ceilings. I've tried various schemes for getting "room sound" e.g. put the mic in the adjacent room, across the room, etc, but the space is just too small and there's all kind of weird resonances and quirks. Not to mention noise from within and outside the ...

Rudolph Meinl 4/4 or a B&S 101

I realize this isn't fair bc I chose 2

I have this weird feeling that the 495 Hagen might be the answer but I've never seen them available in the U.S.

*logs on to Discogs*

Don Butterfield also on this nice one:

Jabba the Huttl