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name that monster
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 10:37 pm
by Tim Jackson
Just saw this on ebay! Looks really big... and seems to have a lot of tubing for a 3 valve.
What is this?
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Post Card Young Girl In Tuba Drum Major French Couesenon Advertising
Re: name that monster
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2015 1:01 am
by imperialbari
EEb.
Re: name that monster
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2015 2:05 am
by imperialbari
Re: name that monster
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2015 3:20 am
by MikeW
This is a Couesnon EEb tuba (genuine EEb, not just a 4v Eb). It used to be in the Boosey and Hawkes collection, and is now at the Horniman museum. They have it catalogued as a bass tuba. Go figure.
I think the kid is kneeling on a fake rock behind the tuba, and not actually in the bell (in the original picture, there's a foot sticking out to the right of the bell)
http://www.horniman.ac.uk/object/2004.1192
Re: name that monster
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2015 6:17 pm
by roweenie
I'll bet it plays as stuffy as all get-out.