Hi all - the Harvard Gazette just published a short article on the giant tuba that has lived in the Harvard Band room since 1948.
Here's the link! https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/ ... iant-tuba/
Harvard Gazette article on the giant Besson tuba
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Dave Detwiler
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Harvard Gazette article on the giant Besson tuba
Played an F. E. Olds 4-valve BBb in high school (late '70s)
Led the USC Trojan Marching Band tuba section (early '80s)
Now playing an F. Schmidt (=VMI) 3301 and goofing around
on a 1927 Pan American 64K Sousaphone Grand
Led the USC Trojan Marching Band tuba section (early '80s)
Now playing an F. Schmidt (=VMI) 3301 and goofing around
on a 1927 Pan American 64K Sousaphone Grand
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bisontuba
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Daniel C. Oberloh
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Re: Harvard Gazette article on the giant Besson tuba
Best of luck to the guys at Dillon. I hope they post a full report on the restoration. The bell alone would take me a week or more to get properly squared away, not to mention the time needed to make the tooling and mods to my dent machine 
. Fun, fun, fun. 
D.C. Oberloh
. Fun, fun, fun. D.C. Oberloh