What is this?

imperialbari · Post by **imperialbari** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 1:38 am

I wanted to contact Sean about my web based mail reader, which had started to consider the Topic Reply notifications from this board as spam. I have been able to fix this in my personal context, but not generally. Spam is annoying, but legit mails being sifted out by overly zealous filtering is worse in my opinion.

During this process I went to the homepage, where I normally never will go, as I have set up keyboard shortcuts taking me directly, where I want to go.

The homepage has gotten a new photo:

I am fairly sure that this is the valve block of an Eb sousaphone, but the odd 2nd valve tubing puzzles me.

E. A. Couturier Co Ltd. - La Porte - Indiana excelled in â€œConical Boreâ€

Tubadork · Post by **Tubadork** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 2:11 am

E. A. Couturier Co Ltd. Yep, that is what it is. I didn't take the pics, but here are more:
http://www.tubahouse.com/default.asp?pa ... hotography
Bill

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 10:21 am

I not only love the pictures but I enjoy the dark sonorous backround that may look like the view a person playing a tuba would see in the back of a room with limited light. Salty photos!

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 4:16 pm

More info on the company at Horn-u-copia,
along with some other Couturier instruments