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what tuba is this??
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 8:35 pm
by USStuba04
any one know what kind of tuba this is....
http://www.iteaonline.org/Journal/32N2/tilburycover.jpg
looks like a Besson 983 kinda but it looks like it has a detachable bell...
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 8:46 pm
by Chuck Jackson
Looks to be a Hirsbrunner of some sort.
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 9:43 pm
by Cameron Gates
PT something with a detachable bell.
With that guess I'm all in. Anyone want to call?
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 10:08 pm
by joshwirt
I believe I remember reading in an older ITEA Journal that it's a B&S PT-3P with a detachable bell....although it could be a PT-4P. Either way, Jack Tilbury sounds phenomenal on whatever he plays!
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 10:09 pm
by Chuck Jackson
It is a silver tuba with piston valves. That can only mean:
1. It isn't as good as a brass one with rotors.
2. It isn't as good as a silver one with rotors
3. It isn't as good as a brass one with pistons
4. It ain't a helicon
5. It ain't a 14K
6. An E-9 is worth more than 2 E-6's, so maybe it is a great horn
7. Tilbury is in the Army, Sheridan was in the Marines, so maybe it is an OK horn afterall, with the possible exceptions of 1-5 listed above.
Does that cover it Joe? Oh yeah, if that horn was within a 100 miles of a DCI event, are all bets off?
Chuck"inquiring minds don't really care" Jackson
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 10:43 pm
by brattom
B&S PT-4P with a custom detachable bell.