Isn’t Schleppy’s helicon a 3-donors’ conglomerate with the bell and the 4 pistons valve section coming from tubas?
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Lightweight, Large bore sousaphones
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Re: Lightweight, Large bore sousaphones
My well disguised point rather was whether Schleppy has experienced problems with the non-tilted valves from a tuba section.KiltieTuba wrote:Yes, it overhangs too.imperialbari wrote:Isn’t Schleppy’s helicon a 3-donors’ conglomerate with the bell and the 4 pistons valve section coming from tubas?
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Re: Lightweight, Large bore sousaphones
My two Conn monster Eb's have tilted valves, and the majority of the valve slides are below the valve set. I really believe that they used Sousaphone valve sets for these. The exception is the 4th valve, where most of the tubing is mounted on the front of the upper bow.
JP/Sterling 377 compensating Eb; Warburton "The Grail" T.G.4, RM-9 7.8, Yamaha 66D4; for sale > 1914 Conn Monster Eb (my avatar), ca. 1905 Fillmore Bros 1/4-size Eb, Bach 42B trombone