TubaTinker wrote:
All that tubing is equal to the length of the tubing on the 1st and 3rd valves. It's a 3 + 1 set-up. Nice tuning slide kicker. Never seen one of those on a 24i.
Hopefully, the 4th valve tubing is slightly longer than 1 and 3 combined.
This is NOT a 3+1 setup, 3+1 means the 4th valve is not located with the other 3 and is operated with the left hand.
I thought the Conn Constellation was a pretty nice horn. It certainly won't sound as big as a modern compensating euphonium, but it had a very nice sound nonetheless. And the tuning slide trigger was a few decades ahead of the Sterling and Besson.
When Denis Winter was first in The U.S. Coast Guard Band with me he played one of these and it worked very well for him. I believe that is what Henry Charles Smith plays as well.
I wouldn't mind having one in addition to my other horns (assuming I were richer and had a bigger house, of course). It might be a great choice for certain pieces.
