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My first CC: Melton 2145
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 5:01 am
by oedipoes
It says 'Melton Spezial Jon Sass' on the goldbrass bell, and has a inscription 'haagston' as well.
Great tuba, great sound!
Great addition next to the Willson BBb.
Now just me getting used to CC playing...
Wim
Re: My first CC: Melton 2145
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 8:08 pm
by Alex C
Sweet horn. The switch to C fingerings can be hard if you use the BBb much. Concentrate on the new fingerings.
Re: My first CC: Melton 2145
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 9:28 pm
by Bob Kolada
Any chance of a picture of it next to your giant tubas?
Re: My first CC: Melton 2145
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 9:46 pm
by Michael Bush
Yep. I learned to play c very easily once there were no BBb tubas in the house and it was no longer an experiment. Until then it was just about impossible.
Beautiful horn, BTW.
Re: My first CC: Melton 2145
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 5:27 am
by corbasse
As a product of the Belgian music education system and a brassband player Wim should have no trouble at all with the fingerings. People here are well trained in (sight)reading several clefs and he's used as a brassbander to reading C & G as open notes.
He'll just have to get used to the instrument
(Wim, can you bring it to rehearsal sometime? I'd love to try it, as I'm sure the others would
)
Re: My first CC: Melton 2145
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 8:03 am
by tubajedimaster
What's the diameter of the bell? It appears rather small? Do you get a rather bright sound from the horn?
Re: My first CC: Melton 2145
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 1:00 pm
by oedipoes
tubajedimaster wrote:What's the diameter of the bell? It appears rather small? Do you get a rather bright sound from the horn?
410mm, sound is not bright at all.
Re: My first CC: Melton 2145
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 1:01 pm
by oedipoes
Bob Kolada wrote:Any chance of a picture of it next to your giant tubas?
There you go ...
Re: My first CC: Melton 2145
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 11:11 am
by toobagrowl
Nice tuba. But I'm most interested in that old Kaiser BBb on the left.
Is it a Bohland & Fuchs?
Re: My first CC: Melton 2145
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 4:11 pm
by oedipoes
tooba wrote:Nice tuba. But I'm most interested in that old Kaiser BBb on the left.
Is it a Bohland & Fuchs?
Read more in this post about the same tuba:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=31671&hilit=kaiser
It could be a B&F but it could as well have been made by another Graslitzer tuba manufacturer in the 1930's ...
The only inscription on the bell is an inventory number from the "Stadt-Orchester Freiburg Im Breisgau". See picture.
Wim