You are right Mark. And the 68 and 68x nomenclature of Amati and Cerveny originates directly from the Bohland and Fuchs model designation of 68 for their 1/2, 3/4, 4/4 and „ganz weit“ (extra large) series of B tubas (also available in C), with the later, extra large having 132 and 82 mm diameter at ...

FYI, see an ad from the netherlands on. Cerveny 601 Kaiser

https://the-brass-shop.com/v-f-cerveny- ... uba-e2949/

chris

yes B&F modell 65 (Amati used the same models and # later), maybe 435 hz

chris

Mary,

thx for the reply and nice that you got a lot of feedback.

Don‘t worry. You have an Opera early 1960-ies. The S linkages and the valve rotors as pictured are THE very typical set-up of the Cerveny/Amati/Lignatone ones from this time. (my picture in my earlier post shows the later version of ...

Dear Mary,

Congratulation for this nice instrument.

From an old Amati catalogue from the 1970-ies I have attached a picture of the #822 B Bass Opera from VF Cerneny. Looks very similar to your model. (body, bell ratio and postion, entry of mouthpiece into 5th valve etc).

Regarding dimensions, I ...

I have the same bag (Soundline) for my Alexander F/C double tuba. Very good price -performance ratio. For further Info on aS (Arnold Stölzel), please check out

https://www.stoelzel-music.de/en

best
Chris

Hi,

I have an older (end of 60-ties, early 70-ties) Hirsbrunner B Tuba 3 valve Compensated. Still with brass valves and not the „later“ plastic/composite rotors. The tube is 112 cm high (44“) and a bell diameter of 42,5 cm (16,7“), bore 19,5 mm (7,67“). Based on bore and bottom bow taper it is not ...

This Topic is very interesting and resembles a lot of the Graslitz / Kraslice area musik instrument making industrie with familiar Names of Bohland und Fuchs whose facilities where then used the Amati and its export brand Lignatone, Rudolf Meinl, Anton Meinl (Melton), Miraphone etc etc in West ...

I copy what Thomas has said about the Alex 164 currently at Alexander in Mainz. I played the tuba when I was there mid of february. With 17660 € as (compared that to other famous hand made tubas ) one would get a fully hand-made tuba based on sheet brass. Even the valve tubing is all handmade (bent ...

@ York-aholic

thanks for the info. would you be willing to sell the mouthpiece and if, what are you asking for ?

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Chris

York-aholic,

Sorry, I can not sent a PM. Would the MP fit into a todays American /European receiver ? I am interested in the Alex MP.

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chris

Thanks for the picture. I do Not Need the bore size.
It is what it is. You say the cup inner diameter is ca 30 mm ? These Alex mouthpiece had larger diameter shafts to fit the huge receivers especially on B Tuba. I am not sure what the status once was with F Tubas. Does the mouthpiece fit into an ...

@ york-aholic. sounds good. Attached is a picture of legacy Alex Mouthpieces (from Bort2.0 message). Looking foward to your reply.

thx
Chris

Hi,

for historic reasons I want to buy an original Gebr. Alexander Mouthpiece for F-tuba, preferrably a #30, 31 or F32 or potentially some of the grades. These mouthpieces are not available anymore and I am hoping that somewhere in some box, there are some left.

Dor your info, I have attached a ...

Depends on definition of „double tuba“ and I do not know what the overall definition for tuba is. But for french horns it is clear, and that should/could also apply to tuba.

Any combination of 2 pitches in one instrument, usually F (same length as an F tuba) and Bb, would be called a double (french ...

another Reisser Bb 4/4 in german ebay Kleinanzeigen…..

https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/b-tuba-4-4/2704213696-74-7443

I have played on a Reisser 3/4 Bb Tuba 1980-1984 (at age of 14 years after having played clarinette for 4 years and the band needed a tuba player. And well as my father ...

Mike,
that is exactly what I meant (sorry for my english). Hearing what we might have lost, when everything is played on the basically same modern instruments….

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Chris

As also referenced by Louis (TheBerlinerTuba), here is a link to Jack Adler-McKean, tubist and researcher, who wrote very interesting articles about the history of the tuba and has a ton of sound samples playing serpent, ophicleide, vienna tuba, cimbasso, french C tuba, Eb Bombardon etc etc. on then ...

Hi Bort 2.0 and the new owner of the Alexander Mouthpiece Collection,

please find attached some specs of the Alexander Tuba Mouthpieces from a 1984 Gebr. Alexander Mainz catalogue. As this info is getting more and more difficult to come by, I thought sharing the specs of the mouthpieces might be ...

hi (admin),

I jus received a PM email by one of the members here. But I can not reply to the email (neither a „reply“ button nor anything else which would open a window to answer….).

Did I miss something in the settings etc ect ?

best

chris