There is actually one of these, here... (JP379F)

[bloke]

I haven't pushed selling it, because I was thinking of making a demo of it, first for JP...

...but (well) I should probably advertise it anyway...

VERY high quality...NO compromise between this and the model it obviously references

...and (as more of the JP models include this) a VERY tough (VERY thick plastic) case that I would rate as just about "fiberglass equivalent".

INFO: https://www.jpmusicalinstruments.com/pr ... iston-tuba

[LeMark]

Amazing F tuba. I had a ball playing one at TMEA

[Doc]

I played one earlier this year, and I thought was was a super tuba.

[LeMark]

sure you don't mean Supa tuba?

[Doc]

sure you don't mean Supa tuba?

Oh heavens no.

[bort2.0]

Ok, I'm a dummy... Which tuba does it copy?

[LeMark]

looks like an Adams/hirsbrunner to me
https://www.austincustombrass.biz/custo ... -your-own/

[bort2.0]

I couldn't tell it if was the MRP, the MW 2250, or something else. Doesn't quite look exactly like any of those. Maybe "copy" was the wrong word.

[LeMark]

Looks close to the MRP, but closer to the Adams, IMHO

[bloke]

2250...
...and all of the same strong points, and all of the same minor quirks...just as with their other amazingly faithful reference instruments.

[Shawn]

Erm, how much?

[Billy M.]

I tried this horn at Blokeplace back in late June. This horn, along with the 'frankentuba' Bloke created were great players.

Bloke's F was a fine horn and had less intonation quirks. However, I liked the pitch and feel of this horn over Bloke's (personal preference) because it felt like I was playing my Eb... only in F. (Joe even joked at my bias).

If someone buys this tuba, they will be getting a fine horn.

[bloke]

When told the price, everyone has been very pleased.

All who played it have been very positively impressed.

It would be really great is someone who..

> is really pleased by the price
> really likes the way it plays
> is shopping for an F tuba
> is funded

expresses interest in this.

[bloke]

...so we’ve been holding this for yet another person who – when it came right to the day to pay for it – they decided to not buy it. They never actually even showed up to try it out, but communicated with us incessantly - for a couple of months - about the money that they were going to receive, and that they were going to definitely buy this instrument. (I really don’t “get“ the “pretending to buy things“ phenomenon…but maybe - ?? - it’s been brought on by the “add to cart“ online feature, or something.)
It would have been nice for the disingenuousness to have been known, but (other than not being able to let everyone else know that it could’ve been available for sale) that’s water under the bridge.
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All anyone really needs to know is:
THIS WONDERFUL NEW INSTRUMENT IS - ONCE AGAIN - AVAILABLE FOR SALE, and - at an amazingly-low price.

INFO/SPECS: https://www.jpmusicalinstruments.com/pr ... iston-tuba