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What Make and model horns are in the picture?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:36 pm
by bigbob
could you please tell me what make and model these horns are in the picture?? Thank You...........................bigbob
Re: What horns are in the picture?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:40 pm
by tubaguy9
sorry to point out the obvious, but from left to right is sousaphone, tuba, tuba, tuba, sousaphone
sorry, other details I don't really know
Re: What horns are in the picture?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:46 pm
by bigbob
Gee! Thank You for being sooooo informative AGAIN!!bigbob
Re: What horns are in the picture?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:49 pm
by Mike-ICR
The middle tuba is definitely a Conn Eb. That's the only one I can be certain of.
Re: What horns are in the picture?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 6:43 pm
by Ken Herrick
tubaguy9 wrote:sorry to point out the obvious, but from left to right is sousaphone, tuba, tuba, tuba, sousaphone
sorry, other details I don't really know
Hmmmmm, I could have sworn it started with HELICON,
Then again maybe it is really tuba, tuba, tuba, tiba, tuba
Or yet again maybe it is really Buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, Buffalo...............................
In any case, it is an interesting photo. Maybe soome info on the source would help smebody provide more definitive answers.
Re: What horns are in the picture?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:23 pm
by MartyNeilan
Ken Herrick wrote:tubaguy9 wrote:sorry to point out the obvious, but from left to right is sousaphone, tuba, tuba, tuba, sousaphone
sorry, other details I don't really know
Hmmmmm, I could have sworn it started with HELICON,
Nope, definitely starts with a Sousaphone - an old "raincatcher" Sousaphone.
Re: What Make and model horns are in the picture?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:31 pm
by imperialbari
I am fairly sure that the sousaphone to the right is an early Conn 40K: BBb, 4 pistons, 22" bell (mine is from 1928 and has a 24" bell)
I don’t know about the tubas, and the raincatcher sousaphone to the left puzzles me. I think it is an Eb, but I don’t recognize the very compact valve block.
Klaus
Re: What Make and model horns are in the picture?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:51 pm
by Ken Herrick
Yep, right Marty!!!!!!!!!
Won't go into why I said helicon -
I have a vague recollection of having seen this photo a long time ago and that it was a line up of players from one of the early 20th century US bands showing their range of Conn tubas.
Re: What Make and model horns are in the picture?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:09 pm
by imperialbari
This photo?
Re: What Make and model horns are in the picture?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:11 pm
by bigbob
It is a Policemans Tuba band of 1910..............bigbob
Re: What Make and model horns are in the picture?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:37 pm
by Bob Kolada
I think the concert tubas on the left and far right are Eb's (mid-size on the left and Giant on the right) which intrigues me as the Giant seems to have a completely different tuning slide from every other Giant I have seen.