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Nice
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Awesome! :tuba:

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I brought this tuba to show and tell, an I sound like **** on it.
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k001k47 wrote: I brought this tuba to show and tell, an I sound like **** on it.
Thank goodness it isn't "show and play!!"
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bloke wrote:...a thumbs-up and some polite envy expressed ("sure wish I had a recording bell tuba like that to use on our pops concerts with Maestro ______ _____"...etc.)
Top valve recording bell - what the CC tuba crowd has been waiting for.
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Now we know what bloke wanted the rotary valves for - CB50 style long whole step valve before the block. Nice work! Looking forward to seeing the front valve version.
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Can't speak for why most CC players would want to play a front-valved horn.
I prefer front-valves. On top-valved horns all the blood tends to eventually rushes out of my hand.
And that's it.
Though I did try a couple of Besson-style Eb's and found them almost impossible to hold up. Shame really.
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Three Valves wrote:
k001k47 wrote: I brought this tuba to show and tell, an I sound like **** on it.
Thank goodness it isn't "show and play!!"
My Vaughan Williams can still beat up your Vaughan Williams :x
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bloke wrote:Holding any tuba, mashing on the buttons (wherever they happen to be found), and making not-very-fast-most-of-the-time fart sounds into it is much easier than doing lumberjack stuff

(snip)

...or at least, it seems to me. :D :tuba:
Lumberjack?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgaRd4d8hOY" target="_blank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE1q0UDZD2U" target="_blank

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bloke wrote:Holding any tuba, mashing on the buttons (wherever they happen to be found), and making not-very-fast-most-of-the-time fart sounds into it is much easier than doing lumberjack stuff, summertime-in-the-south roofing stuff, lineman stuff, or crocodile-hunting stuff...

...or at least, it seems to me. :D :tuba:
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You're the (bell front) man, Bloke.
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DP wrote:
lost wrote:one piece bell/bottom bow is unique
did I miss something? or do you mean the looong leg on the bow? are these even on the bell-up bishers?
Boy, if that doesn't look a lot like a York 692....
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Any progress on this very interesting project Bloke?
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