Hey guys,
I know there was a discussion going about the EEP-526 euphonium a while ago......well I was at work today and found out that we got a new Eastman compensating euphonium in and my manager said that I will be able to try it out tomorrow! I will give you guys hopefully a halfway decent review of it as I plan to spend an hour or so on it. From what I saw however, it seems to look like a Miraphone copy.
I'll give you guys details tomorrow....
UPDATE: 6/5/15
So today I tried out the Eastman while I was at work, and I must say that I am heavily surprised by it. The tone was dark and almost singing like, however for me that only happened when I went into either the high register or the low register, the middle register just didn't seem to nearly sing as much as the others but that may just be a user error. For those that do not know about the horn I will give you a quick run-down of the specs.
.610” bore, .630” 4th valve bore
11.4” yellow brass upright bell
Stainless steel pistons
One thing that I noticed is that it felt a lot like the Miraphone Euphoniums I have gotten the chance to try meaning that it was very free blowing and took a very large amount and needless to say that I don't have the lung capacity (yet) to play this horn to it's fullest potential. Also the valves seemed to be very slow but that is just me. As far as response of the horn is concerned all I can say is wow! For me the High Ab is a trouble note for me to hit on a single attack, but when I tried it with this horn I got a very full Ab to come out the first shot. I highly recommend that you try the horn out if you get the chance because for $3300 dollars, you get a great horn that if you have the lungs for will definitely work for what you need. As always thanks for reading this, for this is my first horn review so if there is anything you guys think I should add let me know!