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I am interested in some information about a BBb tuba I got off of eBay. It appears to be a stencil of a VMI or PT 3; 16 1/2 inch 4 rotors and a .750 bore through the rotors. Will post pictures later,

Tom Mason wrote:I am interested in some information about a BBb tuba I got off of eBay. It appears to be a stencil of a VMI or PT 3; 16 1/2 inch 4 rotors and a .750 bore through the rotors. Will post pictures later,

If it's this one http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... true&rt=nc... it appears to be a VMI stencil. At first glance I would say it's a model 101 stencil but the main slide looks more like a CC style loop.

bloke wrote:http://www.wwbw.com/VMI-2103-Series-4-V ... 18555.wwbw

Yup. Good eye, Joe.

Does the Mercedes name indicate that this tuba was marketed by Bach? The S-links might be back from that era some 30 years ago.

Klaus

I had suspected the same things I am seeing from your statements. Although Bach is never mentioned on the horn stenciling, It kinda made sense that Bach may have been the original seller. I will be getting three or four dents ironed out over the summer as money comes in from gigs, and I will be cleaning the rotors and casings. Plays pretty good as is. The most needed repairs are the dents taken out of the leadpipe, and some braces reattached.

Does it run on gas or diesel?

B'nW or BMW? Or BNW (although that really sucks)? Or BND? BAG? R'nB?