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Hi,

Newbie here. Please let me know if I'm mis-posting.

I'm looking for a first valve for a Weril J370 tuba. Does anyone have ANY idea where I could find such an animal? I have an opportunity to purchase said tuba at a great price, but of course it's worthless if I can't find a valve.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Ben

I gave up trying to communicate with the people who (supposedly) bought Weril in Brazil. I sent carefully-contructed sentences/paragraphs (in Portuguese) to them in emails, and all I got back from them was generic nonsense.
I need a piston for a J370 model as well.
I'm going to transplant an entire Bauerfeind (German, and very well-made) 3-valve small-bore top-action valveset (from a hopelessly-trashed "Blessing" copy of a King 1140) to mine, and then get it sold - likely: to some middle school.

Later (??) I might sell you a 1960's Holton top-action valveset - so you can have someone do a transplant...
...but I'm not ready to part with it, quite yet...

LizzardBreath wrote: ↑Fri Nov 13, 2020 1:26 pm I'm looking for a first valve for a Weril J370 tuba. Does anyone have ANY idea where I could find such an animal? I have an opportunity to purchase said tuba at a great price, but of course it's worthless if I can't find a valve.

I suspect the seller can't get one either.

Buy a second J370, harvest the first valve, and then...

Wait, why does the tuba need a new first valve in the first place? Isn't that quite concerning on its own?

bort2.0 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 13, 2020 4:04 pm Buy a second J370, harvest the first valve, and then...

Wait, why does the tuba need a new first valve in the first place? Isn't that quite concerning on its own?

The tuba could have been bought in a condition where the valve was missing. I think that's what happened.

tobysima` wrote: ↑Fri Nov 13, 2020 7:40 pm

bort2.0 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 13, 2020 4:04 pm Buy a second J370, harvest the first valve, and then...

Wait, why does the tuba need a new first valve in the first place? Isn't that quite concerning on its own?

The tuba could have been bought in a condition where the valve was missing. I think that's what happened.

But how does a valve "go missing"? Kinda important, right?

bort2.0 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 13, 2020 8:10 pm But how does a valve "go missing"? Kinda important, right?

Definitely important. Also important to remember to not be surprised with how brainless people are.

You can contact Walter Nirschl, he is good friend with Roberto Weingrill, owner of weril. Maybe he could help you to order a valve. Nowadays weril produces very fine quality instruments..... Very sad that their reputation is not as good as it could be. For me the quality of their instruments is much better than most of the Chinese production instruments.