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With thanks owed to a couple of TubaForumeers (who moved it about for me, once I purchased it from one of the non-eBay auction sites for chump-change)

I now own a mint condition Jakob Winter case which fits an English-style baritone.

For quite a while, I've owned (traded a badly-out-of-tune beautiful-looking Jinbao Yamaha YEP-201 knock-off for it) a YBH-621S.

I've repaired most of the things that have needed to be repaired, but never got it to the finish line because (and this isn't a good reason, but...) its case (per typical milk-jug-plastic-and-styrofoam Yamaha cases) is trashed...

...so - now that I have a REALLY NICE CASE for it - I'll probably finish sticking this instrument back together.

"Retail" (well...Thomann...) for this case is $400 plus (assuming its in Europe) a bwuttlode of shipping:
https://www.thomannmusic.com/jakob_wint ... ritone.htm

My work-in-progress YBH-621S is a (yes...) silver ( )

Mick Jagger wrote:You can't always get what you want.

3+1 NON-compensating config. I've owned the (non-comp.) 3-valve version, and these are really fun to play...so I'll have my B and E a bit better in-tune, a sort-of-OK low E-flat and a pretty good low D available (not that "low range" is what these little things are for, but whatever).
Also...These are more like the earlier Besson/B&H baritones (before they decided to make the bells and the bore sizes too large, thus not sounding enough distinctly different from a euphonium).

Neat. I have been messing around the last couple weeks on a compensating 3v Besson British baritone. My friend actually used it to march in a Columbus Day parade a couple weeks ago. Really fun instrument. Don't know where I'd ever use it, but neat. This one has a repurposed case from a forward bell baritone horn or something like that. Cool that you were able to find a JW case for it.

arpthark wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2024 1:57 pm Neat. I have been messing around the last couple weeks on a compensating 3v Besson British baritone. My friend actually used it to march in a Columbus Day parade a couple weeks ago. Really fun instrument. Don't know where I'd ever use it, but neat. This one has a repurposed case from a forward bell baritone horn or something like that. Cool that you were able to find a JW case for it.

If yours is old (3-valve comp?), it features ONLY a .504 inch bore and ONLY an 8-inch diameter bell.

...I owned one of those...It was one of my formerly-owned "cool toys" that were sold off to purchase FatBastard.
(I still owned the 5450 AFTER I bought FatBastard.)