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Has any US company built a compensating Eb or BBb tuba?

Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2019 10:24 pm
by GC
Just mindlessly curious.

Re: Has any US company built a compensating Eb or BBb tuba?

Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 9:39 am
by tbonesullivan
I haven't seen one, used or new. The compensating system seems pretty limited to European use. I think Kanstul may have been the only company I remember that made a compensating euphonium, but definitely didn't make any compensating tubas that I remember.