Reading, PA CL: Couesnon Eb $200

[arpthark]

https://reading.craigslist.org/msg/d/sa ... 00153.html

[Casca Grossa]

I got excited when I saw Reading, PA. I wanted to check it out, but it's 45 minutes away.

[donn]

There's nothing like those old 3 valve Eb tubas with a big dent in the leadpipe, and no one made them like Couesnon.

[BRS]

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[arpthark]

I'm a bit of a Couesnon apologist -- they are what they are, but they aren't as bad as all-get out. I owned one briefly before flipping it to a middle school (and despite my packing, it still managed to come unsoldered in transit!), and I was able to get a somewhat decent sound on it.

There are tubas that my wife says sound like this:

"teeeewt"

That Couesnon, somehow, was NOT a "teeeewt"er.

[donn]

We need to work with this. Tubas that sound like teeeewt, players, etc.

My comment was in a somewhat ironic vein, but I don't mean to be critical of Couesnon, they've made some fine instruments. I have a saxhorn that I think would be excellent if I could play it. What I think I would steer clear of, just by reputation, is the Lafayette models, which may have included an Eb but this doesn't look like it. Maybe this would be a good beater to learn brass instrument repair, and if you could get that leadpipe fixed (am I right, there's a big dent?) it would be a fun if useless player.

[humBell]

I'm a bit of a Couesnon apologist -- they are what they are, but they aren't as bad as all-get out. I owned one briefly before flipping it to a middle school (and despite my packing, it still managed to come unsoldered in transit!), and I was able to get a somewhat decent sound on it.

There are tubas that my wife says sound like this:

"teeeewt"

That Couesnon, somehow, was NOT a "teeeewt"er.

My onomatopoeia is somewhat understaffed at the moment...
teeeewt would be the equivalent of a nasal voice from a tuba?

Thinking of Peter Lorre at the moment...

[arpthark]

A thin, pinched sound that is also sometimes caused by leaks in the instrument.

[anadmai]

I got excited when I saw Reading, PA. I wanted to check it out, but it's 45 minutes away.

Heck! I live in Reading, PA. :)

[iiipopes]

Oh, if only the rest of their instruments were as good as their flugels.

[Casca Grossa]

I got excited when I saw Reading, PA. I wanted to check it out, but it's 45 minutes away.

Heck! I live in Reading, PA. :)

Me too