Posted by js on February 09, 2002 at 01:00:52:
In Reply to: upright for quintet? posted by Kyle Cabral on February 09, 2002 at 00:28:34:
I've not encountered particularly bad intonation with these Olds/Reynolds instruments, but I HAVE experienced "difficult" intonation (and difficult response, as you report) with the 641 tubas...I was trying to teach students at the University of Mississippi who were playing these 641's and I finally picked up their instruments and tried to play (on their 641 tubas) what I was asking them to play...' quite a challenge.
I would recommend the Reynolds, if it is mechanically sound. Check the Reynolds for old paper wads down in the bore, though, as school-owned "recording bell" tubas tend to "attract" these. If the intonation of the Reynolds really is strange, perhaps paper wads are the culprit.