Wow a tuba for 56 bucks, i like.

Daryl Fletcher · Post by **Daryl Fletcher** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:20 pm

Donn wrote: What's a Wagner tuba, isn't that a Bb tuba with a wider bore than a euphonium?

A Wagner tuba is a whole different thing. Wagner tubas are left-handed and generally played by French horn players and with horn mouthpieces.

MaryAnn · Post by **MaryAnn** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 2:54 pm

tubeast wrote:-Scaring elephants
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I vote for that one....but, really, it's more fun with a french horn! I mean, have you heard a really good Elephant Blaster on a horn? If you stuff your hand far enough up the bell, a good resemblance to an imaginary elephant in heat can be achieved.

However....windshieldbug does keep pointing out the return policy, which I think is downright brilliant. I'll have to remember that one for the next time I want to sell an instrument and not have it come back!!!

MA

MaryAnn · Post by **MaryAnn** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 2:56 pm

Daryl Fletcher wrote:
Donn wrote: What's a Wagner tuba, isn't that a Bb tuba with a wider bore than a euphonium?
A Wagner tuba is a whole different thing. Wagner tubas are left-handed and generally played by French horn players and with horn mouthpieces.

Yes, and they are nasty beasties, too; way, WAY out of tune in general, and no reachable bell to put the hand in to fix things. Any horn player with a little flexibility can play one (I've blatted on an Alex at a horn symposium) but many would really rather not.

MA