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Have you ever seen this Sousaphone?
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2019 9:47 am
by Dave Detwiler
This undated page from an old A. K. Huttl (of Graslitz, Bohmen) catalog showed up on my Facebook feed the other day. The horn is listed (in German) as a "helicon - new model with removable bell."
Have you ever seen one of these? And/or do you have any idea when they were first built? Just curious!
hüttl+kaiserhelikon+2k.jpg
Re: Have you ever seen this Sousaphone?
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2019 9:57 am
by humBell
Dave Detwiler wrote:....
Have you ever seen one of these? And/or do you have any idea when they were first built? Just curious!
hüttl+kaiserhelikon+2k.jpg
Alas no, i have neither seen one nor can i do more than speculate at a date.
But now i too am curious!
Thanks!
Re: Have you ever seen this Sousaphone?
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 7:10 pm
by bigtubby
Dave Detwiler wrote:This undated page from an old A. K. Huttl (of Graslitz, Bohmen) catalog showed up on my Facebook feed the other day. The horn is listed (in German) as a "helicon - new model with removable bell."
Have you ever seen one of these? And/or do you have any idea when they were first built? Just curious!
hüttl+kaiserhelikon+2k.jpg
You might contact the folks at the Markneukirchen Museum (a stone's throw from Kraslice/Graslitz), they were helpful with a couple of datings/identifications for me.
http://museum-markneukirchen.de/start.html