Is this horn a front action giant?

ZACH336 · Post by **ZACH336** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 10:29 pm

Hello everybody I was looking on ebay the other night and I saw a picture of this Conn Giant Eb tuba for sale. I followed the link provided to the conn loyalist page and discoverd that they also were made in front action models. My question, is this Eb recording bass for sale at dillons the recording version of the old Conn Giant model?

Heres pictures of the two:

Shockwave · Post by **Shockwave** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 2:47 am

Yes. It looks just like my 1924 front action Giant but with the handy dandy aimable bell. I didn't know there was a recording version. Mine has a shorter tuning slide and a longer first loop of tubing after the valves. The older horns seem to have been made in high pitch with a longer slide to compensate for low pitch.

-Eric