Sterling / Perantucci 1065HGS Euphonium - Just picked up

[Kit15]

Congratulations and enjoy!

[Aethelfleda]

Enjoy the Sterling!

My Baritone horn is an early Sterling (pre virtuoso, probably late 80’s, round mother if pearl buttons, solid, and quite heavy to hold compared to my bandmate’s
Besson ) but it’s got a lovely rich sound esp in the upper register.

When I got mine it was pretty battered and needed some things doing to it but the valve quality is streets ahead of my student euph, and it is well constructed so it “serviced up” really nicely, and I love it. it lumps into the “kinda like a besson soverign” category but having played both I actually prefer the Sterling.

In the UK there are now a lot of “John Packer Sterlings” which are cheaper instruments (JP model with input from Sterling founder) , but the original Sterling brand had no student models: every instrument is a good quality compensating pro level horn. and as Dave said above, there don’t seem to be many so they’re a bit off the beaten track, well done for getting one and hope you keep enjoying it.

[tbonesullivan]

Still working on the pictures. Just gonna do my usual "clean and lubricate everything" process, so that's 8 valve slides and one tuning slide, and 4 valves to worry about. Then gonna polish it up just a bit, though it's still mostly shiny. Just a great instrument.

Now if only the case looked as nice. It's a nice case, but it's held together by tape, and the compartment inside was torn out.

[tbonesullivan]

Finally got pictures, because I'm lazy. It's definitely been used a bit, and if I go by the sticker on the somewhat destroyed case, a previous owner used it in the Junior South Jersey Band, which would have probably been 7th or 8th grade. Man I wish I had been allowed year pro-level instruments when I was that age, but I probably would have destroyed them. Thankfully this one was not destroyed. Except for the case:



Here it is in the case. The compartment in the case unfortunately is not there, so no convenient place to stow mouthpiece, wipe down cloth, etc. I'm considering whether to "rebuild" one, as the anchor screws are still there. Here's the front and back photos:

[tbonesullivan]

Here's the main tuning slide, which looks like it may have taken a hit at some time, though the slide itself is also "warped" like this.



The 4th valve cap has cork, where one would usually expect to see some type of mother of pearl or acrylic material:



And, this brace may be bent? The horn works fine though, so there's not really any reason to consider this an "issue".



I'm right now working mainly on getting my fingerings from the high school days back in my brain, and really figuring out where I want the valve tuning slides set. I'm not used to having to worry about so many slides, or not being able to just manually adjust things easily.

[Pat]

Hey, the case is designed to protect the horn and has appeared to have done so, so it has served honorably and well. It likely earned the scars. Horn looks great... very, very playable. How do you like the sound?

[tbonesullivan]

Hey, the case is designed to protect the horn and has appeared to have done so, so it has served honorably and well. It likely earned the scars. Horn looks great... very, very playable. How do you like the sound?

I feel that it has a good sound. Very rich. I'm still working on adjusting my "inner sound concept" from trombone to euphonium. But I guess it's not much different from trumpet players who also play flugelhorn. Just takes time.