Tuba 10,000 made its debut at UM Campus

TubaMM is announcing the sale of
five new products available immediately

A young student playing on our newest tuba available for order,
the MM-TU 5000 Tuba, as seen at the U.S. Army.



TU MM 5000  In a festival  in London England

MM-TU 5000 Tuba

• 380mm(Bell diameter)
• 16mm (Bore Size)
• 4(Piston Valves)
• 5 year Warrantee on workmanship

MM-TU 7000 Fletcher Model Eb Tuba

• 480mm(Bell diameter)
• 17.5mm (Bore Size)
• Stainless Steel Piston
• Foambody Case

MM-TU 8000 Tuba

• 472.5mm(Bell diameter)
• 21mm (Bore Size)
• 5 Valves (1 Rotary)
• 5 year Warrantee on workmanship

MM-TU 8500 F Contrabass Trombone

•271mm(Bell diameter)
• 14.9mm (Bore Size)
• Professionally Built
• 5 year Warrantee onworkmanship
• As shown at US Army
• Washington D.C.

MM-TU 4500 Tuba

•The Newest Addition to the M&M Instrument line
•5/4 sized with a strong centered sound excellent intonation
•Large 19in Bell
•802 Bore
•Lacquer Finish
•Silver available
• with HD Wheeled case and mouth piece

Buffet Crampon USA is pleased to announce  that SASI
M&M Instruments is appointed their dealer.

SASI Official String Repair Company for Broward School District.

Summer Arts Sessions International Inc., SASI, as been selected by The Broward School System to be the official String repair Company for all the Schools in Broward County The Broward School System is the 5th largest school system in the US

Russian Symphonic Orchestra plays in Miami

The Tubist from the Russian Symphonic Orchestra with His M&M 210 BBB Picture taken at the Miami Florida Concert

GTC Band Receives M&M Instruments

The Green Turtle Cay Marching Band received a major contribution from a group of regular visitors, boaters from the Edgewater Power Boat Company. The Gift included a tuba, slide trombone, trumpet, and a set of marching bells to the great excitement of the bands organizers and musicians. The tuba is from M&M Instruments located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Interlochen grad once again has a cello to call his own

TubaMM in the News

Sarasota Florida - Another satisfied Customer playing the MM-TU 1200 Tuba.

TubaMM in Ann Taylor Loft Store

New York City - Ann Taylor Stores has selected M&M Instruments to be displayed in the windows of the Loft Store at Times Square New York City, 42nd and Broadway. M&M Instruments were selected for their high quality and affordable pricing as The Loft Stores a division of The Ann Taylor Stores

TubaMM at Miami Conference

Miami - Sara Fletcher, the Principal Oboe player Of the Palm Beach Pops. John Olah, The Low Brass Instructor at The U of M Miami

Heroica Brass is proud to present the only full size contrabass BBb Tuba in the whole city of Cartagena.

By the way, our Tuba is also used by the Symphony Orchestra of Bellas Artes Cartagena.

This was a really economic tuba, therefore we were a bit sceptical about if it really would be good enough for us. But used Tubas in this price range often have too much damage and we could not risk paying expensiv shipping for something that may be inoperable, so we took the smaller risk buying a new BBb Tuba from TubaMM Fort Lauderdale USA.

Getting this Tuba to Cartagena was a story of its own. We had a big problem with the shipper. Somehow this task got to BAX Global and they failed completely. They did not inform us correctly about the status of the transport, letting us beliefe the Tuba stays in Bogota already and letting us do paperwork that they should have done, only to tell us after 3 weeks that the instrument is still in the USA. After loosing a lot of time searching an other shipper, we contacted Avianca Express (Deprisa Box) and they brought the cargo in 5 days from Miami to our door, without any paperwork and for the half price of what BAX Global was billing. In this whole process our contact person Michael Bassichis from Tuba M&M was very patient and helpful. He may be too very short writing in his mails, but he is reliable and gave us a great service. Thank you Michael.

TubaMM at Florida Music Educators Association Conference

By King2ba
TubaNet Author

     

Jupiter - Today was day one of the exhibits being open at the Florida Music Educators Association Conference. It's nice to be able to walk around and at one of these things and not be tied to a booth, though I did spend quite a bit of time at one booth in particular.

As one would guess, all the normal people were there...Conn, Holton, Yamaha, Bach, etc. I was pleasantly surprised by the Holton euphoniums. There is a full line of euphs. from Holton and if you take a look at the valve buttons, you'll know right away who makes them.....the "Made in Brazil" sticker helped, too!

The Jupiter people were as nice as always. They still haven't made the Euphoniums large shank, but there is rumor of a CC tuba in the works. Maybe we'll know more after NAMM. I always love to spend some time at the Mollard Baton booth. I'm a terrible conductor, but the woods are so pretty, and these are people that know their sticks!

The booth that really took up all my time was the M&M booth. Yeah, Custom is here, and TubaExchange is here, but the M&M booth had some nice horns and some GREAT guys...Michael Bassichis and Ron Bishop. Mike has done some great things by getting instruments that are affordable and play well...and Mr. Bishop....well you can't find a more generous and kind person....he even told me I sound good...he did it with a straight face and everything! Laughing I didn't get to play every horn Mike had a the booth, but everything I played was a good horn and built well.

The BBb's all had a warm sound and solid slots. One of my biggest complaints about many BBb's is that they won't slot well. This isn't the case with M&M instruments. I was quite pleased with what I played.

The 6 valve F tuba was AWESOME! I played this horn the most! The low C, and Bb are as solid as any Yamaha I've played, and the sound of this horn is just beautiful. It's possible to get a very smooth lyrical quality as well as some real punch when needed. There are some pitch issues. I played a few things and Mr. Bishop and I talked about how to deal with some of the pitch things. To be entirely honest, when I used the fingerings that I would have to use on my old B&S, this horn played right down the middle. So, for less than half the cost of a B&S you could get a horn with 6 valves, more solid low end, and the same fingering chart! This tuba would come home with me at the end of the conference if I wasn't a poor music educator!

The CC tuba that looks like a "Piggy" was also an interesting little guy to toot on. I must say that little CC tubas have never been my thing. They are too honky for me. The tuba has some serious bite to the sound if you let it go. The scale for this horn was a little odd, but I have to admit I played it with all the slides in and didn't mess with it much. I wanted to play the F tuba again! I'll go back tomorrow and play the CC some more.

The 4 valve non-comp euph was also a great buy and an even better player! It was just a stellar instrument. Only time will tell how these instruments will last, but I've had a lot of instruments put in my hands over the years and the M&M instruments felt every bit as solid as instruments that have come out of my favorite German factories!