Re: Date my Martin Sousaphone
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:11 pm
Fighting..the..urges....Whimsicalnymph wrote:Please help me date my E flat Martin Sousaphone.
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Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:19 pm
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:12 pm
1951 or 1952
Re: Date my Martin Sousaphone
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:16 pm
me too, man...me too.greatk82 wrote:Fighting..the..urges....Whimsicalnymph wrote:Please help me date my E flat Martin Sousaphone.
Re: Date my Martin Sousaphone
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 3:16 pm
Funny- I thought the exact same thing...Tubaryan12 wrote:me too, man...me too.greatk82 wrote:Fighting..the..urges....Whimsicalnymph wrote:Please help me date my E flat Martin Sousaphone.
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:32 pm
I'll bite.
No thanks...I only date F helicons. must have 4 rotary valves and 2 tuning bits.
No thanks...I only date F helicons. must have 4 rotary valves and 2 tuning bits.
I dated my suzzie martin 1953
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:53 pm
ser.no. on mine is 187101 was made in 1953 acording to the Lablanc company said mine was made in 1953. Check there site out and see if it might have your ser. no. listed for your martin. just me what I know rob bass
Re: Date my Martin Sousaphone
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:15 pm
I guess I'm the only one who is not going to fight the urges. On first glance I thought it said Please help he HATE my Eb Martin Sousaphone. It's not that funny. In fact it's rather confusing.OldsRecording wrote:Funny- I thought the exact same thing...Tubaryan12 wrote:me too, man...me too.greatk82 wrote: Fighting..the..urges....
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:17 pm
How hornist!eupher61 wrote:No thanks...I only date F helicons. must have 4 rotary valves and 2 tuning bits.
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:31 pm
Don't offend the orginal poster. She wanted to date her horn, not you!eupher61 wrote:I'll bite.
No thanks...I only date F helicons. must have 4 rotary valves and 2 tuning bits.
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Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:51 pm
Beleive it or not.... there was a day when Eb was a more popular school horn than BBb for starting kids out on tuba. I started playing in 1955 and didn't even see a BBb tuba until 1963!tubashaman wrote:Random question, what was the point of having an Eb sousaphone back then
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:57 pm
the BBB standard of 2 Eb/2BBb was common in earlier 1900s US bands too. Ever wonder why so many marches and concert literature are frequently written in octaves?
Having the octave doubling can add a lot of clarity to the bass line. According to Wm Revelli (the late "Chief") it was quite effective in marching as well as in concert settings.
Thus, an Eb sousie.
Having the octave doubling can add a lot of clarity to the bass line. According to Wm Revelli (the late "Chief") it was quite effective in marching as well as in concert settings.
Thus, an Eb sousie.
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 12:25 am
Treble clef players (like trumpeters) could easily be "converted"; the fingerings on bass clef being the same if you overlayed bass clef + 2 sharpstubashaman wrote:Random question, what was the point of having an Eb sousaphone back then
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 12:34 am
Yep. That's what happened to me. I was late getting to the bandroom for sign-up and all the cool stuff was already taken! I got the old Eb Conn tuba.windshieldbug wrote:Treble clef players (like trumpeters) could easily be "converted"; the fingerings on bass clef being the same if you overlayed bass clef + 2 sharpstubashaman wrote:Random question, what was the point of having an Eb sousaphone back then
Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 10:34 pm
Sometimes, it pays to be late!TubaTinker wrote:Yep. That's what happened to me. I was late getting to the bandroom for sign-up and all the cool stuff was already taken! I got the old Eb Conn tuba.windshieldbug wrote:Treble clef players (like trumpeters) could easily be "converted"; the fingerings on bass clef being the same if you overlayed bass clef + 2 sharpstubashaman wrote:Random question, what was the point of having an Eb sousaphone back then