NAME THAT TUBA...!!!

[SplatterTone]

This is Beethoven's hearing trumpet used when he started going deaf.

[cjk]

B&S made stencil BBb. Maybe Gerhard Schneider or Sonora or something like that.

EDIT: whoops, didn't see that it had already been answered.

[Tubaing]

[imperialbari]

?:

[Todd S. Malicoate]

Looks like that huge "thing" on the bottom bow of a Melton Kaiser.

[Tuba Guy]

the bottom bow of some 3 valve top action (or 4 valve compensating in 3+1) horn
that's as good as i can get...when i get a camera, we'll see if anyone can identify one of mine

[Todd S. Malicoate]

Here is another one to chew on.

Too easy, Wade...that's a two-valve contrabass bugle, most likely a DEG. Is that an old G model? Looks just like the ones the corps used when I was teaching Black Gold.

[tofu]

[THE TUBA]

Here is another one to chew on.

I'm going to guess a King K-90.

[tubatooter1940]

I thing Bloke is having a good laugh at all of us goobers who buy a tuba and then post in here asking what the heck have we bought.
I would love to have the "G" tuba above and the fine lady to play it for me.
Klaus, I didn't see a King tuba listed in your arsenal. Do you find Kings to be of mediocre quality or have you not found one yet that trips your trigger?
Dennis

[J.c. Sherman]

De Prinz nickel-plated piston instrument? also perhaps marked "Sear"?

That's my best guess...

J.c.S.

[imperialbari]

Klaus, I didn't see a King tuba listed in your arsenal. Do you find Kings to be of mediocre quality or have you not found one yet that trips your trigger?
Dennis

Were we obligated to only ask about our own instruments? The detail I gave isn’t from one of my own instruments, neither is it a King. Yet King made instruments of a similar configuration, which is the only type of tuba having guards in this place.

Klaus

[Mojo workin']

Anyone?

[Nick Pierce]

Anyone?

Miraphone 188.

[Todd S. Malicoate]

Not a C, but a Miraphone F (note the shorter 1st valve slide). Is this one of the newer Firebirds? Has the look of a 181, but a more open wrap than I remember seeing on those.

[The Jackson]

Yeah, look at that vertical tuning slide. The 188 has a horizontal slide and is also a lot bigger.

[Mojo workin']

a Miraphone F (note the shorter 1st valve slide). Is this one of the newer Firebirds? Has the look of a 181

A Miraphone 181 F it is.

[Todd S. Malicoate]

A Miraphone 181 F it is.

And a good looking one at that...drool...

[Nick Pierce]

Oops, just looked at the valves.

[Todd S. Malicoate]

Here's a tough one...

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