eBay: Dalyan BBb (looks like Cerveny 683 copy)

[arpthark]

Wonder if this is made in the same factory as the Packer BBb.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/156352264117?m ... media=COPY

[LeMark]

Looks closer to the Jin bao version. I've owned them both

[bloke]

nope...That one is jimbo.

[arpthark]

Wasn't aware there was a Jin Bao version.

[LeMark]

this is the day I got it. The valve problems started the next day

Sold it at a loss, bought the Packer, and played it for years

[bloke]

Had I spent much time with a JP379B, I probably - as a dealer - would have snatched up a demo (show display) and added a fifth rotor - rather than building the compact Holton.

They don't look the same at at (and - ok - the sound is subtly different), but they function (for a working tuba player) in the same way...and both offer easy tuning.

[Ace]

Wonder if this is made in the same factory as the Packer BBb.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/156352264117?m ... media=COPY

I don't know the answer to your question, but some years ago I read that the Dalyan instruments were no longer being produced in their old factory which had been retooled to produce high quality ball bearings for the military. -Ace