Has anyone tried different baritones? I'm particularly interested in how the excellent Schiller SC6536LLE is compared with the now very sadly discontinued York YOBA3055 (and 3056 the 4-valved variant). How do they stack against the big boys such as Besson and Yamaha?
-Nigel
Baritone Comparison
Baritone Comparison
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Re: Baritone Comparison
I just recently wrote a rundown of all the available baritones on dave werden's euphonium site. Here's the link:
http://www.dwerden.com/talk/forum/messa ... erthread=y
In short, I think the buffet crampon bessons are amazing! Yorks and older bessons aren't anywhere near as good. The yamahas are nicely made instruments and tune well, but the sound is MUCH different than you get from the bessons and their derivatives, and not in a good way. Yamaha is apparently working on a new neo model with katrina marzella which appears to be much more besson-like.
Did you check out the john packer/sterling model one of the vendors at NABBA had?
I have not played the schiller, but it looks like a pretty straightforward besson 955 copy. People seem to generally be positive about their yamaha euphonium copy other than some minor gripes about valves that need a little work, etc.. I'll bet it's hard to beat for the price!
andreas eastman also makes a chinese-made baritone, but it's a ybh-301 copy and I don't believe that's an instrument that deserves to be copied.
http://www.dwerden.com/talk/forum/messa ... erthread=y
In short, I think the buffet crampon bessons are amazing! Yorks and older bessons aren't anywhere near as good. The yamahas are nicely made instruments and tune well, but the sound is MUCH different than you get from the bessons and their derivatives, and not in a good way. Yamaha is apparently working on a new neo model with katrina marzella which appears to be much more besson-like.
Did you check out the john packer/sterling model one of the vendors at NABBA had?
I have not played the schiller, but it looks like a pretty straightforward besson 955 copy. People seem to generally be positive about their yamaha euphonium copy other than some minor gripes about valves that need a little work, etc.. I'll bet it's hard to beat for the price!
andreas eastman also makes a chinese-made baritone, but it's a ybh-301 copy and I don't believe that's an instrument that deserves to be copied.