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The Tuba Exchange is now offering St. Petersburg tubas in different colors. I guess it was only a matter of time before somebody started doing this.

I have to admit that I like the way the blue one looks, although there probably wouldn't be a whole lot of places where I would play throughout a typical year where I could get away with something like that.

Take a look at the one next to it, the one that looks like it has a satin brass finish. Is that gold paint with lacquer trim? I think that one could probably fit in just about anywhere.

So, if someone had an older tuba that could stand to be relacquered, would having something like this done cost more, less, or about the same as a regular lacquer job?

As long as they picked out a somewhat normal color for a tuba, and as long as whoever they got to do this did a good job, would this in any way detract from the resale value?

You have GOT to be KIDDING ME!!! This is like high school marching band mixed with bad 80's music and a tuba! Sad. Just, sad. I suppose they would make GREAT looking flower pots. You can get one to match your living room now.

smurphius wrote:You have GOT to be KIDDING ME!!! This is like high school marching band mixed with bad 80's music and a tuba!

Hey, some of us really miss the 80's.

hehe nice to see Mr. Ivan Giddings in the one pic holding the giant bayamo lol. funny story here several months ago I purchased a Baer cc mp and Ivan took the giant bayamo and proceeded to roll out the dents and creases in my tubas bell, lol strange technice but it worked wonderfuly! Great mp to it has served me extremly well since purchase.

edit: Also I think that the satin brass and satin bluish looking tubas look pretty darn badass.

Can I get one in day-glo orange and green?

Yeah i have a St Petersburg.....and i mean im for the whole "diversity" thing, but there is a line that has been crossed....

I suppose this is still better than that fiberglass bell Chuck Dallenbach has in Canadian Brass. I absolutely despise the look of that thing, no matter how great it sounds. Hehehe. Tubas and color just seems weird. I've always wondered if the coloring of instruments has any adverse effect on the resonance of an instrument. Sort of like silver and brass? Except now it's silver and brass... and blue.... and green..... and red... and rainbow colored maybe? HAHAHA. This makes me wish I had a fiberglass sousaphone lying around. Oh what spray painting joy I'd have in that!

Daryl Fletcher wrote:So, if someone had an older tuba that could stand to be relacquered, would having something like this done cost more, less, or about the same as a regular lacquer job?

Hey, paint is paint, doesn't matter if it's clear or opaque. And speaking as one of those "fools" who stripped the lacquer off my orchestral horn, I don't think it should affect the resale value...

Uhm, Wade, move away from the crack pipe, that's it, just relax and take deep breaths........because......I'M GOIN' BE THERE FIRST....HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.......I WANT A RED ONE BECAUSE IT REMINDS ME OF.....FIRE....YEAH, FIRE'S COOL

Do they offer one in tie-dye?

Paisley would be way cool!

I want the red light special! I love to stick out at a community band gig... No one in the band notices anyways. It's always the audience that notices the tubas and compliments the section. Our director is a sax player...enough said. Oh, they had a Red Yamaphone at Disneyland when I was there right after Christmas. Still the sappiest place on earth.

WilliamVance wrote:Our director is a sax player...enough said

Our deepest condolences...

the elephant wrote:Wow . . . drooooool . . . the guys at the "big audition" will know that I'm one serious dude when I whip that blue one out and start cranking some Wagner on it as loudly as I can . . .

If I were ever to go to a "big audition," I would be very disturbed if anyone were to "whip out" something. I would especially be disturbed if it were blue.

I would like a purple one. Do they come in purple?

Yeah, lots of color ideas are "cool," but what about
GLOW IN THE DARK!!!!

JB wrote:what about GLOW IN THE DARK

You don't play on stage in the dark, but fluorescent would be cool!

how embarassing! That's most likely me playing that green monster there. Yeah, they are green Kellys, but the horns are all Kanstuls. They are regular Kanstuls sprayed down with coats of green aircraft paint.