What do you do...?

[J.c. Sherman]

What do you do?

I now have the carcass of a Conn 20 J which is in reasonable condition - but the valves are kaput. I'm in a town moving away from the German Alexander style and more Yorkbrunneren are invading, which makes me think a 6/4 'murican tuba is in order.

I know also that I could get an econo-bell or change the bell-front... but it's inelegant, and I could also order a new bell from Lee Stofer. Now we're getting into an investment...

CC? BBb? Graft a Yamaha Rotor section to it? Buy some pistons? Buy a MeinlSchmidt Ubercompenstenrotormassemonkeyvalven?

Who has ideas? Could this be made into a great BAT?

[Dan Schultz]

If the branch that runs by the valve section (you know... the one that takes all the sweaty palms!) is good... just keep it around for parts.

[eupher61]

A shame that NEOh is going away from that gorgeous Alex sound. See my comments in Oystein's thread here and on Facebook...

[TheHatTuba]

Heres the CC conversion Harv did
http://harvshappyhorns.blogspot.com/200 ... -horn.html" target="_blank

[Ben]

Stick with the Alex sound, and remind people why they should love it. The 'bruner invasion shall pass


- That is what I would do. I am in NYC, which is hardly Alex territory, I am not trading up anytime soon.

[Bob Kolada]

Check out Tubatom's (?) front valve conversion. Make yours a cheap Bb BAT, but first finish my horn!
Or beat up every kid with a York-clone and stay with your"Alex", which I remember to be a Kalison.

[J.c. Sherman]

Don't worry, Bob - Nothing's going to happen until your beast is done.

Wish I could see the end-product of Harv's experiment. Knew about the Minick... That's a BBb, correct?

J.c.S.

[Art Hovey]

I am looking for just such a body. I have a nearly-new MM front-action BBb piston valve set that I'd like to graft onto it. The product will be too big and heavy for me to schlep around, but someone might like it.