ca.1880s Bohland & Fuchs Kaiser B-Tuba

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ca.1880s Bohland & Fuchs Kaiser B-Tuba

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Hi,

You might want to check out the blog from The Berliner Tuba on my old kaiser tuba:

https://brassandpipes.wordpress.com/201 ... er-b-tuba/
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Follow up post: Disassembly
Excellent new blog post from The Berliner Tuba:

https://brassandpipes.wordpress.com
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Cool! Great pictures and captions. Keep sharing as the project progresses please!
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Update online (valve section assy):
https://brassandpipes.wordpress.com/
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really excited to see how this goes! I've done this with special vintage saxophones before and I'd love to get my hands on a tuba like that and do a "restomod" to it
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bloke wrote:I'm really glad to see this.

Assuming an instrument is worthy of such a restoration, there's nothing like REPLACING worn-out parts (vs. "rebuilding" them).
Yep, rebuilding would have been ok for museum purposes, but I want to actually play this tuba!
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Just keep the old parts in case somebody wants to "restore" the tuba rather than play it.
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Sure.
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