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Unknown Tuba-Please Help Identify

Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2020 7:19 pm
by Gdavistuba
Hey everyone!

Can anyone give me an educated guess as to what year/make this tuba might be? Found in storage for a high school that is over 100 years old.

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Re: Unknown Tuba-Please Help Identify

Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2020 7:25 pm
by roweenie
Conn sousaphone, maybe a 20K?

Re: Unknown Tuba-Please Help Identify

Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2020 9:49 pm
by KingBassTrombone
If it's 20K sized (7 1/4" bell tenon, 0.734") and has standard-stroke valves, that would (by Conn's numbering logic) make it a 30K.

Re: Unknown Tuba-Please Help Identify

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2020 2:06 pm
by pjv
38K. 30K was a helicon.

Re: Unknown Tuba-Please Help Identify

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2020 3:15 pm
by oscarcahue
It may also be a 32k.
It'll either be a Conn 38k or a Conn 32k.
It'll all depend on what size the bell throat is.

Re: Unknown Tuba-Please Help Identify

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2020 3:17 pm
by oscarcahue
Need the serial number on the middle valve to give you a mfg. date.

Re: Unknown Tuba-Please Help Identify

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2020 9:50 pm
by Dan Schultz
It's a Conn for certain. Could easily be a 32K. Look on the bell collar or tenon for a two-digit number plus a K. Many of those sousas were stamped with a model number.