In today’s edition, from the Museum, we feature an American maker -C.G. Conn -who used piston valves on 99.9% of their brass instruments. We're thrilled to showcase this unique C.G. Conn rotary valve BBb tuba from 1923 as part of the featured collection. It is suspected this tuba may have been a special order for the famous tuba artist August Hellenberg.
humBell wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 1:29 pm
@DandyZ629 How's it play?
It deserves far better than I. However I do need to take it to my technician and have the valve springs redone and a few solder joints and braces moved. The sound is glorious. It really seems to respond to a small mouthpiece and if you relax into the low register, it really rips. I haven't been able to get the sound to break up. It's fun!
Pre-war Alexander 164
1928 York Monster sousaphone.
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