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Tuba Tuesday: Lyon and Healy, E flat tuba, 3 piston, ca.1925
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2025 11:14 pm
by bisontuba
Happy Tuba Tuesday. The Museum today features a Lyon and Healy, E flat tuba, 3 piston, ca.1925.
Bell: 11 3/4”, Bore Size .563, Height 28”.
Comments:
“Lyon & Healy / Silver Piston / Chicago.” on bell. No serial number could be located on body of instrument.
https://simonettitubacollection.com/ins ... -3-piston/
Re: Tuba Tuesday: Lyon and Healy, E flat tuba, 3 piston, ca.1925
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2025 10:24 am
by 2nd tenor
I think that a nice looking and straight forward instrument, something I’d be happy to own.
There’s a chance that L&H didn’t actually make it themselves (just put their name on it) and that would go some way to explain the lack of serial number.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon_%26_Healy
I wonder who, at around that time, made a very similar instrument …
Re: Tuba Tuesday: Lyon and Healy, E flat tuba, 3 piston, ca.1925
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2025 10:36 am
by arpthark
2nd tenor wrote: Tue Aug 26, 2025 10:24 am
I think that a nice looking and straight forward instrument, something I’d be happy to own.
There’s a chance that L&H didn’t actually make it themselves (just put their name on it) and that would go some way to explain the lack of serial number.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon_%26_Healy
I wonder who, at around that time, made a very similar instrument …
If I had to guess, they were imported Czech instruments.
Re: Tuba Tuesday: Lyon and Healy, E flat tuba, 3 piston, ca.1925
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2025 11:17 am
by 2nd tenor
arpthark wrote: Tue Aug 26, 2025 10:36 am
If I had to guess, they were imported Czech instruments.
It could be entirely coincidental, and other Eastern European suppliers would also have been in business then, but I’m reminded of an Amati
https://www.amati.cz/en/products/brassw ... as/aeb-211
The design looks much the same and although the bell is larger that’s been a small modernisation over decades.