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Author: Joseph O'Kelly
Date: 2001-07-11 03:23
I know this is a clarinet site but was wondering about the other instruments made by the orient company. The euphonium catches my eye as I am stuck using banged up baretones from my school and don't have one to use permanantly. What can go wrong with these brass instruments? I am quite aware of their faulty clarinets.
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1444863884
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Author: Sue B
Date: 2001-07-11 03:28
$100.00 shipping sounds like out of this world to me. I don't know how much a new Euphonium goes for though.
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Author: willie
Date: 2001-07-11 03:34
Check the feedback file on the guy selling them. You might be better off buying an old King or Conn and having it fixed up. I was lucky. I found an old King hanging on a nail in a neighbors barn and got it for $25. I can get parts for this horn at any good repair shop. Who stocks or sells parts for those Indian horns?
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Author: ron b
Date: 2001-07-11 04:43
This is a clarinet board but we do get around. Many folks here are doublers and/or familiar with their kissin' cousin musicians in the family 
I my opinion:
If the euphonium is anything like the shiny new cornet I saw recently from that region of the world, Joseph, they're trash - bright, shiny trash. I have no reason to believe otherwise. Really. The spring/valvework felt like 200 grit sandpaper (yes, it had plenty of valve oil) and it made awful clacking noises. I thought the (bottom) springs might break just from moving the valves. No guides or anything, just free to rattle about. This is a 'new' horn I'm talking about. A guy brought it into the shop of a local music store for an appraisal. I wouldn't give someone ten cents for it.
What can go wrong? I don't know how to evaluate something that already has everything wrong with it from the time it was assembled. Well, maybe nothing - I mean, nothing *more* can go wrong with it. Unless maybe the solder joints come apart if you blow too hard : They can't be fixed... there's nothing to work with.
Personally, I'd look for a decent (known brand) used one. Willie was indeed lucky. The rest of us would probably have to pay a little more than twenty five bucks for a decent King or, even, an indecent King. Stick to something known.
- ron b -
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Author: David Kinder
Date: 2001-07-11 05:56
The first time I saw an Indian horn was a really cheap looking saxophone that had Ronald McDonald's shoes made into pads and overstuffed them. Really cheap workmanship. I think I remember that the neck broke in half? I don't know, but I remember thinking that someone really didn't know what they were really buying.
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