I was paging through and saw that ad -- I had one of those for a very short while and it was so out of tune with itself that I found it unplayable. Even the open bugle pitches needed a main slide trigger. Sold it to someone who wanted it anyway even after being told about those problems. This one is for sale now for pretty close to what I sold that one for, probably 15 years ago.
This was in my long saga of trying to find a "euphonium pitched instrument" that was ergonomically possible. Played it on the 2nd euph part in the brass band for a while. Eventually decided there is no euph that is ergonomically workable for me because I just don't do pistons.
Melton 49 on FB
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Re: Melton 49 on FB
That model is basically a "rotary euphonium".
I don't even know if they could still build their kaiser bariton.
The one that I had (moved things around, and souped up a great deal) was sorta similar to a typical "well-tempered" kaiser B-flat.
open D - good
2nd valve D-flat - flat
1st valve C - good
most everything else - good, except (of course) 2-3 was squirrelly (as with ever other valved brass instrument and trombone's 5th position).
I don't even know if they could still build their kaiser bariton.
The one that I had (moved things around, and souped up a great deal) was sorta similar to a typical "well-tempered" kaiser B-flat.
open D - good
2nd valve D-flat - flat
1st valve C - good
most everything else - good, except (of course) 2-3 was squirrelly (as with ever other valved brass instrument and trombone's 5th position).