Meinl-Weston at ITEC
2001:
News
Official ITEC 2001 website
07.09.01
Another successful Tuba and Euphonium conference
is over and it is time to thank our host Harri Lidsle for organizing
this.
We will be posting more pictures and videos from the conference
here soon.
Just for the records: we brought the following instruments to
ITEC this time:
F-Tuba 182,
F-Tuba
46, F-Tuba 45S,
F-Tuba
45QH-S, F-Tuba 45SLP, F-Tuba
46SLP "Titan",
F-Tuba
46SLZ, Eb-Tuba 2141,
CC-Tuba
2145, CC-Tuba 2155,
CC-Tuba
2000, CC-Tuba 2165,
BBb-Tuba
25, BBb-Tuba 195/2 "Fafner", BBb-Tuba
197, BBb-Tuba 18,
Euphonium
50, Euphonium 451
Gerhard A. Meinl and Martin Matthies have been
at ITEC 2001 in Lahti for you personally at our display where
we exhibited together with our local distributor for Finland,
Soitin Laine Oy, Maariankatu 10, SF-20100 Turku.As usual, the Meinl-Weston display became the meeting point of the whole conference - as expected, this was already true at during setup...
Here is Jari Heinonen from Soitin Laine
- answering a call from a player while being at our display.
Opening Ceremony with Harri Lidsle (Host
ITEC 2001), Erkki Toivanen (Festival Host) and Skip Gray (ITEC
President)
Gerhard
A. Meinl, mentally preparing for his clinic / lecture "How
an instrument maker can influence intonation, sound and response
of an instrument"NB: Note his blue "Artist" badge instead of the usual "Exhibitor" badge!
for the
"hands on" - approach even at an exhibition and joins
the setup team. However, at this early stage with all the display
instruments just unpacked, he is still wondering where to put
all the instruments I decided to bring here...
David Cribb (originally from Australia)
testing a 45S-LP F-Tuba. David studied with Steve Rosse and currently
holds the Tuba position at Komische Oper in the re-unified Berlin.
Old time friends - as Warren Deck picked
his first Meinl-Weston Tuba at the age of 15. Now he is the mastermind
behind many of the latest Meinl-Weston models. The
Story behind the Design of the Meinl-Weston 2155 
Roland
Szentpali, Abe "Pepe" Ryanosuk
The
new BBb-Tuba 195 "Fafner is making friends throughout Europe
now: Jouko Vuorinen from Helsinki Opera.
included his own composition
"Little opening for ITEC 2001" and was performed on
the new BBb-Tuba 195 "Fafner"
Results from the Competitions from Saturday
afternoon
Tuba throwing world championships are as follows:
Men: Andrew Tucker 11,40 m
Women: Carol Jantschy 5,40 m
Team winner:Low brassholes (Mirkku Ikonen (10,50m), A-P Kujala
(8,25m),Brian Sheridan (10,05m) and Aleksi Saraskari (12,20m
*World Record, inofficially).
Here is a RealVideo (220kB) of the first contestant ...
more pictures coming soon...Martin Matthies (9/2001)
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