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Was only a matter of time ...

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photo from the thread linked above:

I tried the plastic tuba at Frankfurt Musikmesse. Still some work to do to make this playable. Wessex Tubas will not be stocking until it much improves!

Has got 3 front piston valves - that is about all I can tell you.

I'm going to keep track of this one. Add a black Kelly 18, and it's stealth tuba all over again! Is that a plastic picc trumpet on the lower right corner of the picture? It does need some redesign of the leadpipe and valve block to be more conventional.

Interesting. I just saw some photos from the Shanghai Music Messe and the Tiger company, inventors of the P bone and the P trumpet, have on display at their booth a 4 valve rotary tuba and a large front piston plastic tuba. No idea on price but they looked really good in the photo I saw. I gotta try one of these.
Roger

Roger Lewis wrote:Interesting. I just saw some photos from the Shanghai Music Messe and the Tiger company, inventors of the P bone and the P trumpet, have on display at their booth a 4 valve rotary tuba and a large front piston plastic tuba. No idea on price but they looked really good in the photo I saw. I gotta try one of these.
Roger

Hi-
Someone needs to post pics of these two instruments....
Mark

I guess next thing will be a tuba coming out of a 3D printer?

Slightly better photo of the 3 valve front action

Yes, thanks! Agreed - someone needs to tell them we prefer the leadpipe to be as straight as possible and the valve circuits to be vertical, not horizontal, on a front-piston valve tuba.

Ya really weird plumbing. Kinda reminds me of something, but what was it......oh, ya!

Somebody tell Goodgigs....

Worked the photos through an iPad app. Not for beauty, but for details.

The valve slides’ arrangement has similarities to those of British sousaphones and of some Belgian front action tubas. The reason is that the piston block was designed for a top action tuba.

Klaus

Are the pistons plastic too?

This picture's been floating around Facebook. I don't have any details though.

Hmm. Is the shroud integral to the instrument, or just a shipping shield?

If the valves are plastic, I could imagine that being some sort of "smash guard". But I'm just guessing.

Most interesting.....
Mark

Very interesting indeed...