Eldon Baker and the bass antoniophone

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Eldon Baker and the bass antoniophone

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Last year a member posted an article about the bass antoniophone that was headed " for those who haven't seen one" and in the article he referred to Eldon Baker. I recently discovered that Eldon Baker was my maternal great grandfather and since I am 82 I am working on gathering as much information about him as I can. If that person could respond to me I would be eternally grateful. I live in northern California and my email address is spizzuti@sbcglobal.net. I know where and when Eldon was born and when he died and that he played the tuba with the Gilmore band and with John Phillip Souza. I do not have a picture of him and would treasure that. If the original poster, whose post I can not find a second time, sees this please respond to me via this venue or my email address. Thank you so much,
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Here you go!

http://tubapastor.blogspot.com/2021/10/ ... loist.html

1889 Quintette of Antoniophones (Harper's Weekly).JPG
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Played an F. E. Olds 4-valve BBb in high school (late '70s)
Led the USC Trojan Marching Band tuba section (early '80s)
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on a 1927 Pan American 64K Sousaphone Grand
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Sweet
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I so love this photo. It is one of the only ones that I have of Eldon and I really appreciate you sharing it.
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:D
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