Maybe it's possible to have a good brass instrument on ebay, but we must to be care !
Indian 's brass are not playables and if you want a trumpet for 20 $ sure that's a crape made in india. We see a lot of messages of Tristar on a lot of forums.
Tristar is exactly like the other junks made in India.
It was proof that Tristar use a lot of accounts on ebay for to sold crapy brass.
See :
tristarmusic_com
indiashop
valuebrass
econotrumpet
etc............................ Craponotrumpet.
The most of feed backs are on private solds and if you look very fine
you see a lot of negatives evaluations arranged. That's the best way for to have a good score on ebay. But don't forget that a lot of buyers are not musicians and
are please because it's nice for the price....
When we make a search on yahoo for Tristar Music :
http://fr.search.yahoo.com/search?fr=fp-pu...c&ei=ISO-8859-1
You see that tristar export vase flowers and décorative brass .....
exactly like the other resellers of indian brass junks and crapophones !
When you look too a tristar brass or a Empire Brass, raisonband ect... You see
that exactly the same items with all détails ...
There is no brass manufacture with the name Tristar in India it's a reseller name like the others .

Also if you want a good brass with a raisonable price on ebay, you must to be care...
Brass made in india on ebay = BIG JUNK !