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Help w/model # of old Willson tuba
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:17 pm
by scottmendoker
Hi there -
I need to track down the model # of the old Willson 3/4 CC tuba. It has 4 piston valves with tuning slide on top.
Anyone know of this instrument or have one lying around?
What's left of my brain remembers it being a 3000 series number.
Thanks a bunch -
Scott Mendoker
PS - Already tried Ed Stevens at DEG and Willi Kurath and his shop are on vacation until mid-August.
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:37 pm
by Bill Troiano
Hi Scott! Jeff Furman, the other tubist in the Long Island Tuba Quartet, is playing on an old Willson CC, that supposedly was a prototype of an earlier model. You might want to contact him. His has 4 pistons, but with a thumb rotary valve and I'm not sure it would be considered a 3/4 horn. It could be considered a smallish 4/4. His email is:
jeff.furman@usa.net
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 6:23 pm
by Chuck(G)
Ed had (or has) ad copy describing the Marzan model Willsons. This sounds like one of them--it might be the so-called "solo" model.
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:22 pm
by JCradler
Wow, blast from the past...One of these was my first CC. Don't remember the model#. Built like a tank, nice mp-mf sound, stuffy as all get-out.
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:22 pm
by JCradler
Wow, blast from the past...One of these was my first CC. Don't remember the model#. Built like a tank, nice mp-mf sound, stuffy as all get-out.
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:25 am
by scottmendoker
Thanks to all - DEG came thru w/an old catalog. It's a model 1300 CC tuba.
Scott
Model #
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 9:52 am
by kegmcnabb
Scott,
Did you email DEG directly or what?
I want to know as I have an old Marzan/Willson I would like to identify.
Thanks.