a 5th added
Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2025 3:11 pm
As a Christmas present for myself I finally had a 5th installed on my G&P CC Tuba. The rotor is Voigt, it works very nicely and I wonder how I didn't do it before.
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Re: a 5th added
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2026 3:13 pm
Looks great!
Re: a 5th added
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2026 4:17 pm
Nice! Beautiful horn.
Re: a 5th added
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2026 4:33 pm
Handsome.
I like the over-under routing of the circuit.
I did something fairly similar years and years ago with a fifth rotor on a front action York 19-in Bell E flat tuba.
I was sort of proud of myself, as you should very much be of the way you routed that one there.
I like the over-under routing of the circuit.
I did something fairly similar years and years ago with a fifth rotor on a front action York 19-in Bell E flat tuba.
I was sort of proud of myself, as you should very much be of the way you routed that one there.
Re: a 5th added
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2026 12:52 pm
At the risk of (rudely) me-too-ing...(hopefully, interpreted as "sharing")...
Here's my similar thingie...I'm thinking I did this back in the 1990's...
This E-flat York was originally a 3-valve (front-action).
I had a couple of small-bore (same bore) York-made sousaphones in the attic, and (though I had to do a few tricks to match up the spliced.on casing...back, then, male threads on casings were made separately and lead-soldered in place, which really helped a bunch), I believe it ended up looking pretty convincing (as looking as if it's oem)...so valves 1-2-3 (as well as the mouthpipe tube) are original (.656" - 16⅔mm bore).
The rotor and tubing are Miraphone 18mm bore.
Here's my similar thingie...I'm thinking I did this back in the 1990's...
This E-flat York was originally a 3-valve (front-action).
I had a couple of small-bore (same bore) York-made sousaphones in the attic, and (though I had to do a few tricks to match up the spliced.on casing...back, then, male threads on casings were made separately and lead-soldered in place, which really helped a bunch), I believe it ended up looking pretty convincing (as looking as if it's oem)...so valves 1-2-3 (as well as the mouthpipe tube) are original (.656" - 16⅔mm bore).
The rotor and tubing are Miraphone 18mm bore.
Re: a 5th added
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2026 1:01 pm
Played on this one recently. It's pretty nice, and the work is really well done.bloke wrote: Tue Jan 06, 2026 12:52 pm At the risk of (rudely) me-too-ing...(hopefully, interpreted as "sharing")...
Here's my similar thingie...I'm thinking I did this back in the 1990's...
This E-flat York was originally a 3-valve (front-action).
I had a couple of small-bore (same bore) York-made sousaphones in the attic, and (though I had to do a few tricks to match up the spliced on casing), I believe it ended up looking pretty convincing (as looking as if it's oem)...so valves 1-2-3 (as well as the mouthpipe tube) are original.
The rotor is a no-engraving Miraphone 18mm bore.
Re: a 5th added
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2026 1:05 pm
@arpthark
What Blake likely means by "pretty nice" is that...
With the (not King / not 11/16") smaller bore original valve section, it's not as "free-blowing" as most other redone York/Holton E-flats, but plays as it did originally (other than now being fully chromatic).
What Blake likely means by "pretty nice" is that...
With the (not King / not 11/16") smaller bore original valve section, it's not as "free-blowing" as most other redone York/Holton E-flats, but plays as it did originally (other than now being fully chromatic).
Re: a 5th added
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2026 8:11 am
Yes, it looks very similar, and really lovely. Even in yours it complements very well the look of the lower part of the instrument. I think that tubas should also somehow please the eye; I don't like tubas with a kind of "empty space" somewhere ( like some of the Rusk - cut horns: I had one years ago, and I really didn't like the lack of "balance" of the tubing which created a big empty space between the botton bow and the rest of the body) This is just a personal point of view, of course the "absolute beauty" in tubas doesn't exist, or it does??bloke wrote: Tue Jan 06, 2026 12:52 pm At the risk of (rudely) me-too-ing...(hopefully, interpreted as "sharing")...
Here's my similar thingie...I'm thinking I did this back in the 1990's...
This E-flat York was originally a 3-valve (front-action).
I had a couple of small-bore (same bore) York-made sousaphones in the attic, and (though I had to do a few tricks to match up the spliced.on casing...back, then, male threads on casings were made separately and lead-soldered in place, which really helped a bunch), I believe it ended up looking pretty convincing (as looking as if it's oem)...so valves 1-2-3 (as well as the mouthpipe tube) are original (.656" - 16⅔mm bore).
The rotor and tubing are Miraphone 18mm bore.