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Eldon Baker and the bass antoniophone

Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2021 9:17 pm
by spizzuti39
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,

Re: Eldon Baker and the bass antoniophone

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 2:57 pm
by Dave Detwiler
Here you go!

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

1889 Quintette of Antoniophones (Harper's Weekly).JPG

Re: Eldon Baker and the bass antoniophone

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 3:55 pm
by bisontuba
Sweet

Re: Eldon Baker and the bass antoniophone

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 4:33 pm
by spizzuti39
I so love this photo. It is one of the only ones that I have of Eldon and I really appreciate you sharing it.

Re: Eldon Baker and the bass antoniophone

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 6:36 pm
by bisontuba
:D