Yes, the John Packer JP274 is a very good, reasonably priced Euphonium. It's made for them by the Ovis Company in Tianjin, China. I visited the factory in 2011 and was impressed by their engineering....
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Yes, the John Packer JP274 is a very good, reasonably priced Euphonium. It's made for them by the Ovis Company in Tianjin, China. I visited the factory in 2011 and was impressed by their engineering....
Indeed, you can try a Glenn Van Looy 4th ABC for yourself - anywhere in the world on one month approval, with a full purchase price refund if it's not for you (but that's only happened twice out of...
Confirmation from customers worldwide that the following Euphonium 4th ABCs are perfect fits:-
Besson – Prestige (German Made)
Besson – Prestige (UK Made)
Besson – Sovereign (German Made)...
Indeed! And our ABCs fit them!!
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Halifax & Co in the 1980's was one of the biggest instrument manufactures in India and I met Mr Halifax at the Frankfurt Music Fair in 1984. He proudly told me they supplied Boosey & Hawkes with...
Regretfully the UK Post Office suffered a cyber attack mid-January and they stopped all shipments abroad. For us and countless other UK businesses it proved a difficult time, but the problem has now...
Hello Everyone, England calling.
Thank you for all your comments; much appreciated. We're keen on high quality machined ABCs and equally as important for us is high quality customer service. This...
Thanks for your order Douglas!
Dear All, Sincerest of apologies. We had a family bereavement last week so life got put on hold. We are back now and all orders and Besson thread problems (Edgware/Germany) were sent on Wednesday and...
Thanks for taking the time to evaluate our HBCs everyone and each and every comment is appreciated. We're all built differently, as indeed are the instruments we play and it's about personal choice....
Great comments Shawn and glad the 3rd HBC is working for you. As retired geezers here in Blighty who are both engineers and brass players, we're happily providing a high quality product and as fast...
Thanks very much; we do our best and the two keynotes are high quality HBCs and good customer service. Glad it shines through. Well done for passing-on your HBC to a friend and a very kind thought....
Hello! Thanks for your comments. Sorry the HBC is not for you and do please return the HBC for a full refund if desired.
Sorry to hear this Mike. We'll send another one on Monday and forward you the Tracking Number as we now send everything "Tracked. All the best, Chris
Thank you; we do try our best! Hope your HBC is performing well. All the best, Chris
Hello Everyone and sincere apologies to those valued customers whose HBCs seemed to take for ever to arrive. We've shipped 152 to the USA since 4th July but even one late arrival is one too many....
That's "Thread" as in reply, not "Thread" as in HBC!!!
It will indeed!
Thanks for your HBC order and it'll be in the post today. Will forward the Post Office Tracking Number by e-mail.
All the blighty best,
HBC
Hello from us at HBC here in Blighty!
As players and as engineers, it's been rivetingly interesting over the years to measure the threads for all the Euphoniums we make 4th HBCs for. To calculate...
Lots of HBC chat and interest Dave! We'd happily send you a 4th HBC to appraise, with our compliments. If you'd like to, please send a private message with your address either by text to +44...
Oh, glad the Spacer arrived okay and all the best trying you HBC. Thank you, enjoying being a member of this forum. Blighty cheers, Chris
Yes, in our tests any extra mass on the 1st, 2nd and/or 3rd valve casings, no matter how pro-rata by way of whole-tone, semi-tone and tone-and-a-half produced a negative effect/diminishing returns....
In the post across The Pond Jim! Looking forward to your thoughts and comments. Blighty cheers, Chris
Hello everyone, Chris from HBC Heavy Bottom Caps here. The one month without obligation approval is proving very successful and thank you to everyone who is trying one. We'll send everyone a 10mm...