So you want a bass tuba?

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 4:36 pm

Horrible instruments. Best used as garden decorations.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 6:29 pm

With Couesnons, the key word is "occasional" use. Preferrably by someone else.

I wouldn't even let my garden gnome play a Couesnon...

DonShirer · Post by **DonShirer** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:31 pm

Windshield bug said:

I wouldn't even let my garden gnome play a Couesnon...

I had never seen one, but I walked into band practice tonight and found a new tubist with an old Bb bell-front Couesnon. Sounded ok to me. Is there something about them I don't know?

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 12:39 am

Depends on the model and what you're using it for. The tiny Eb's that were referenced at the top play very stuffy for me, and I find the intonation to be unworkable.

Since I anthropomorphize a lot, I imagine my gnome would find it the same way!

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:20 am

On the other hand, even a small bore French Eb would be better that a saxaphone...

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windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:57 am

So, practice Safe Sax...

Sorry, it's getting too bad, even for me...

Alex C · Post by **Alex C** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:47 pm

Since you have the ability, I'd like to see you buy two of these and make a six valve Cousenon tuba of some determinate key. You wouldn't have to worry about false tones, then.

This setup is quite appropriate to a French instrument as would be 4+2. You could probably justify 5+1 or just six valves in the right hand.

Better yet, buy three of them and make a 9 valve tuba.

....

or a cimbasso.....

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:19 pm

the elephant wrote:My guess is that a set of small eefers purchased by a public school system probably places this horn at roughly the half-century age mark

Judging from the serial number in the ad, I'd guess them to be 60's-70's horns.

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 4:50 pm

windshieldbug wrote:Judging from the serial number in the ad, I'd guess them to be 60's-70's horns.

I seem to recall one of the US manufacturers/distributors pushing the Couesnon tubas in the 60's. Was it Gezten? My memory fails me.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 5:20 pm

Chuck(G) wrote:
windshieldbug wrote:Judging from the serial number in the ad, I'd guess them to be 60's-70's horns.
I seem to recall one of the US manufacturers/distributors pushing the Couesnon tubas in the 60's. Was it Gezten? My memory fails me.

I seem to recall Gretsch...

SplatterTone · Post by **SplatterTone** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 7:22 pm

you still remembered that I have 12 fingers!

Who do you think was the piano player in Gattaca?

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:36 pm

Bob1062 wrote:Wanna buy another one?

I thought those were illegal in New Jersey...

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:05 am

I am the proud owner of a Kweeno. The first tuba I played in elementary school was a Kweeno Eefer. You have to know how to play it--gently. It doesn't have the range of the bigger horns but it has a nice tone. As far as the intonation, well, you probably won't play this for anything to be in tune for! It's not a first line instrument.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 10:31 am

LoyalTubist wrote:It's not a first line instrument.

It's not a fourth space instrument, either! ...

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:22 am

You're right. It's Tuba #9, ranking just behind my Carl Fischer Eefer.