This is now sold to a friend in Michigan. According to the store, the horn previously didn’t sell because someone bought it online and then didn’t want to pay shipping and tried to make the store eat the shipping cost. By all accounts this is a very nice playing example of this model that was owned ...

for you southerners, take note the town in Colorado is pronounced “Lewis-ville” and not the Kentucky gravelmouthed “Luhvuhl.”

Sincerely,
An erstwhile Kentuckian, who has to enunciate “Looey-ville” so people in New England know what he’s talking about

Could the weight difference be accounted for by the 2 pounds of solder between the bell and mouthpipe? :cheers:

Joe knows I'm just joe-king.

I think the Holton is super cool. I had an unaltered/3v top action BBb version pass through here and quite liked it. It would have been a no-brainer ...

Bobo's Mastering the Tuba is good. In C treble clef, so you can use trumpet fingerings and play on any key tuba. Volume I is more warm-ups and technique drills. I think you can buy the updated complete version here: https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Tuba-Roger-Bobo/dp/B000UVLGB6

Otto Maenz, 12 ...

Sounds totally legit. Not wanting to ship means he actually has it. And it is not convoluted "enough" to sound iffy to me. I find scammers will say "my aunt/uncle died and left me this and I don't know what to do with it so I'm selling it." And they do not want local pickup because they don't have ...

Yeah... you can never know for sure, but the seller advocating for local meet-up instead of shipping makes me think this is legit.

As far as provenance, who knows, but the story makes sense to me. I don't blame anybody for being careful/wary though, with all the scammers around now.

Private FB post,


For Sale: Holton 345 CC tuba,5/4, four valve-pistons, 22" bell

"I got this horn about 2 years ago from a local music shop where it was donated and fixed up after being found in a barn. I got a (at the time) new chronkite bag for it. There are a few dents in the side and on the ...

Arnold Jacobs used to call his York a 5/4. I bought a BMB 6/4 CC that was advertised as a 5/4. My point being, these designations are kind of amorphous, so I can forgive someone not being super hip to the lingo.

These horns were made 70-60 years ago, so it seems plausible to me that Uncle Bob ...

Maybe I’m missing what’s implausible (besides no price listed)?

The Noank-Mystic Community Band will be performing tonight at 7pm at the Groton, Connecticut Municipal Building (295 Meridian St, Groton, CT 06340)

Conducted by Mr. Jeff Spenner, assistant conductor, U.S. Coast Guard Band.

The program is:
Commando March , Samuel Barber, arr. Jim Curnow
Irish ...

Thanks to MG I've been reunited with the Bobo "Mastering the Tuba" book (autographed copy to boot!) which has some really demanding exercises in it and is sort of a tour-de-force of things on the tuba that I've been neglecting since college. I've been using selected excerpts as a daily routine the ...

If our tubas are too light, can we do the same but with a bag of sulfur hexafluoride dragging along the ground?

Woodshedding Ives on the borrowed 5/4 Rudi CC:

There is also someone active on instrument repair groups on FB who does this now. I'll have to try to track him down.

Sherry Huntley at Conn/Artistic Engraving was the gold standard but she has retired. Some ideas on this trumpet forum thread:

https://www.trumpetherald.com/forum/vie ... ?p=1710101

Upon closer inspection and looking at old pics, this was not my Rudi, but these are great horns. My Piggy kind of fills this niche, but I'd be interested were it a bit closer to me.

That routing really favors playability, although I get the aversion to the work, here's my 99 year old 692 with the stock "can't-reach-on-the-fly" 4th circuit routing
https://tubaforum.net/download/file.php?id=2939


I see an old bell scar -- was that originally a bell from a top action horn?

DC is ok. I grew up in Baltimore, and went to DC a few times per year, so it we were quite desensitized to it. I went to college even closer to DC, and by that point didn't go all that much.

I don't hate it, but I've never wanted to live there. Or maybe, the parts where it would be cool to live ...