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A Rather unusual mid 1800s tuba
Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 11:54 pm
by David Richoux
Saw this photo in a Smithsonian exhibit in DC a few days ago - a member of a New England sewing machine factory brass band from around 1875 or so (maybe older than that.) I don't think I have seen a bell flare quite like this before!
1875-ish-tuba.jpg
don't have much more info than that...
Re: A Rather unusual mid 1800s tuba
Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 12:16 am
by iiipopes
Wow! A TARV 4-valve Eb! And I thought Isaac Fisk was the first one to do that. Great tuba!
Re: A Rather unusual mid 1800s tuba
Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 1:59 am
by David Richoux
The picture was a very small part of an exhibit in the American History Museum called
"Communities in a Changing Nation"
Re: A Rather unusual mid 1800s tuba
Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 2:08 pm
by skeath
That bell flare suggests the influence of the Saxhorn family, not unusual for that time period.