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... of the coolest tuba you've seen. Here's mine:

My Couesnon French tuba in C.

58mark wrote:I've always thought this was cool.

Look at the bottom bow of that thing... OUCH!

UncleBeer wrote:My Couesnon French tuba in C.

How does it play? I'd love to have one of these...I've played a couple of dogs and a couple of wonderful ones. One of these days...but, I'd love to get together with you sometime and play that thing sometime...Enjoy, Uncle!!!

58mark wrote:I've always thought this was cool.



One of the first contrabass tubas, a cerveny from around 1870. Notice the 3rd and 4th valve wrap in the back is still the one used today on the piggy, 601, neptune, and pt-6

Winner!!!

I've always been partial to these two little guys. One a Cerveny, the other a German instrument that followed the Cerveny design very closely:


And also this big guy who strayed quite a bit away from that classic design and wanted everything (except the 4th valve circuit) way up front:

I'd love to play one of those little French tubas sometime. I wonder how hard it would be to set up a euph like that...

Bob Kolada wrote:I'd love to play one of those little French tubas sometime. I wonder how hard it would be to set up a euph like that...

Well, traditionally they're in C, so you'd have to snip some somewhere. It's a cool horn of limited use, and definitely takes some getting used to. Great for Berlioz, Mendelssohn, etc.

ustabemy Conn Custom Jumbo (as IDd by Steve Dillon). Gorgeous sound, HORRIBLE pitch...ask Matt Walters but be ready for some cussing in return. It's in a collection.