Travel tuba solution without bell?

[bstevens]

I noticed this guy from La Brass Banda playing a horn without bell as a world travel solution ... sounds great from recordings - very helicon-esque.

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Question - what horn is that, and any other horns that'll work like that? I play my Conn 20K without the bell and sounds great - just a semitone flat but actually works, but am looking for a good travel horn option that doesn't require massive flight cases or excess fees ...

Thoughts?

B

[imperialbari]

A semitone flat as compared to the 20K with the bell mounted?

[Dan Schultz]

I noticed this guy from La Brass Banda playing a horn without bell as a world travel solution ... sounds great from recordings - very helicon-esque....
...Thoughts? B

That looks to be an F tuba. With the stack extension and the main slide pulled out... it could well be in tune.

[bstevens]

That looks to be an F tuba. With the stack extension and the main slide pulled out... it could well be in tune.

Interesting ... could you hack off the bell of a Yamaha 822 F? What's a "stack extension" exactly?

(I meant semitone sharp for the 20k without bell)

B

[Dan Schultz]

..... What's a "stack extension" exactly? ... B

By 'extension'... I'm talking about the part of the bell on the horn in the picture that is about 6" above the top bow. That portion doesn't appear original. The horn in the image appears to be one that originally had a detachable bell.

If this treatment had to be applied to a BBb tuba, I think it would require quite a bit more of a stack extension and main slide to make it in tune.

[imperialbari]

Isn’t the tuba in the linked-to photo rather an incomplete assembly of an instrument inspired by Allessandro Fossi’s or Øystein Baadsvik’s tubas?

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[pjv]

Found this
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