The British F tuba

[J.c. Sherman]

Neptune, don't you own a Barlow F converted to 3+1 Compensating?

Just listened to all 15 clips of the Pictures. It's surreal to hear and see my teacher again and so young. Premru was a master. I'm also astounded at the great tuba playing!

J.c.S.

[imperialbari]

Bevan, at least in his 1st edition, writes that some of the Barlow’s had their valve lay-out changed. But I never heard that any of them became equipped with a compensating valve system.

Klaus

[J.c. Sherman]

Neptune has Fletch's detachable bell F beast, which (IIRC) had a valve-ectomy and had a besson set installed. This is just my memory talking, which is faulty as hell.

J.c.S.

[imperialbari]

Jonathan for a short period owned a compensating F tuba modified on behalf of John Fletcher to have a 19" bell from the olde Imperial or New Standard BBb tubas. I cannot find the postings by Jonathan even if I seem to have dated them to about a year ago from some 3rd party private correspondence of mine.

While searching my disk for reference I found this link to an important older posting on the Barlow tubas:

http://www.chisham.com/tips/bbs/jun2003 ... 38833.html

Klaus

[Wyvern]

Here is link to the thread about the John Fletcher Boosey & Co F I owned (for a lamentably short time) -
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=31673

[Mike-Johnson-Custom]

Ha!
I've just 'rejoined' Tubanet and found this page!!
I could take ages putting a few legends straight but...
Besson Built the Barlow F Tubas most of us know. But they also made at least one with a compensating valve set.
For those of you on FaceBook there are three pages you might find interesting.
John Fletcher Tuba Virtuoso https://www.facebook.com/groups/58131164250/
Stuart Roebuck (Stuart was the last British Tuba player using a Barlow regularly https://www.facebook.com/groups/stuartroebuck/
Harry Barlow https://www.facebook.com/groups/stuartroebuck/

[Mike-Johnson-Custom]

That particular F used to belong to the Royal Northern College of Music only they never sold it...........

[Mike-Johnson-Custom]

That particular F used to belong to the Royal Northern College of Music only they never sold it...........

I bought it on eBay from a seller in the UK who kindly organized having it restored and re-lacquered by Besson before shipping it to me.

http://www.rugs-n-relics.com/Brass/tuba ... -tuba.html

I have no doubt on the current owner being honest.
My comment is that some people think its ok to sell stuff that's not theirs.