Posted by Rick on April 09, 1999 at 13:09:44:
In Reply to: russian tubas???? posted by Adam Feldberg on April 09, 1999 at 12:28:17:
It all boils down to currency exchange rate. Russian currency isn't worth much against german or american currencies. Frieder also picked up pretty good volume of horns in his initial purchase.
The horns were also raw brass at the time and required modification.