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The Big Blow
25th February 1957: An American who believed in gimmicks brought his band to the UK in 1907. Amongst the instruments recently found from that trip was this sub-contra bass tuba. The pipework is over 34 feet long. Original Publication: Picture Post - 8838 - Outsize Tuba - pub. 1957 (Photo by Frank Pocklington/Picture Post/Getty Images)

by Frank Pocklingtonreference: 3259682


Found Here:http://www.jamd.com/search?assettype=g& ... bass+tubas

That looks like the tuba that Paxman (London horn maker) built for Gerard Hoffnung's first Hoffnung Festival of Music in the mid-1950s.