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0.715" bore in a York Monster sousaphone?

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 12:57 am
by imperialbari
http://www.ebay.de/itm/222019712630?_tr ... EBIDX%3AIT

I am not involved in this auction at all.

Down in the description the bore is claimed to be 0.715". That number puzzles me, as it does really a standard bore.

Klaus

Re: 0.715" bore in a York Monster sousaphone?

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 7:09 am
by windshieldbug
That's a pretty big tuba!

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Re: 0.715" bore in a York Monster sousaphone?

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 9:52 am
by imperialbari
lost wrote:My York sousa of the same model measures .750. Probably a typo.
That was my suspicion also, thanks.

Klaus

Re: 0.715" bore in a York Monster sousaphone?

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 8:41 pm
by Walter Webb
The neck, as so often happens to Yorks, is a Conn or some other such grafting.