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Horn Idenity question

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:45 am
by beforeforever12
http://www.horn-u-copia.net/picture.php ... y-Tuba.jpg" target="_blank

What kind of tuba is this?

Re: Horn Idenity question

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:52 am
by Rick Denney
beforeforever12 wrote:http://www.horn-u-copia.net/picture.php ... y-Tuba.jpg" target="_blank

What kind of tuba is this?
Old.

Rick "probably a Cerveny F from the late 19th Century" Denney

Re: Horn Idenity question

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 12:00 pm
by Dan Schultz
beforeforever12 wrote:http://www.horn-u-copia.net/picture.php ... y-Tuba.jpg" target="_blank

What kind of tuba is this?
The name of the image clearly says 'Cerveny. I would agree.

It's probably a modern-pitched Eb or F.

Re: Horn Idenity question

Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 4:20 am
by imperialbari
The HP-to-LP conversion loop in the main tuning slide indicates that this instrument originally was made before the pitch reform of 1920.

Klaus