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Hi, long time since I've posted anything here but the UK lockdown gave me time to get my valves oiled, slides lubed and lips vibrating on a new project.
A couple of years ago I bought two 1925 Hawkes & Sons tubas from a band I'd been conducting. They hadn't been touched and kept in a shed for 30 years and in fact had ivy growing through them and spiders living inside them - almost like a barn-find car.
After a bit of cosmetic work, some deep cleaning and a lot of spit and polish they're back to some form of glory so I used them to record a multi-track video - please take a look:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KdzNRR ... pIR4AaABAg" target="_blank" target="_blank

Originally high-pitch they were converted in the 80s. The 3 valve, non-comp Eb is lovely to play, I've played a few concerts with it. The 3 valve, non-comp Bb is a different kettle of fish and would need some serious long-term time investment to find your away around its "elongated-tubing' tuning vagaries.

I've also done another video - an arrangement of Libertango using the Eb plus my own "normal" Eb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GDObxd6Bm8&t=40s" target="_blank" target="_blank

Please let me know what what you think. I have more photos of the old tubas if anyone is interested.

Cheers,
Phil.

Really nice! Thanks for sharing! Welcome back!