What is this?

[andrew the tuba player]

ok. so i was just lookin at random horns when i came across this. i have never seen a rotary valve sousaphone before. Just wanted to know if it was original or not.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Very-old-Sousaphone ... 518eb8ad96" target="_blank

[andrew the tuba player]

I've seen several rotary helicons. But since the tubing before the bell points up and then out that makes this a sousaphone.....right? I mean. That was what first popped into my mind. The body section looks a lot like a helicon but since the bell and last section of of the body are angled like that i thought it was a sousaphone. This is a sousaphone right? now I'm all kinds of confused (leave it to the tuba player). ok so back to the original question. Is there a rotary sousaphone and if so is this one original or home made?

[MartyNeilan]

If I were to wager a guess...
In the last couple years, there have been companies taking mediocre F rotary bass trombones, putting a 90 degree bend in the middle, and calling them a Cimbasso to jump on the (admittedly still in its infancy) cimbasso craze.
Perhaps those same companies, a hundred years ago, were taking their helicons and just bending the bell forward and flaring it out to jump on the Sousaphone craze???

[k001k47]

Humongous boar sizes

liek dis?

[Donn]

liek dis?

OK, that's cute, but in case you don't know, fake.

[andrew the tuba player]

lol considering the magnum he is holding looks like a BB gun next to thing I'd concur. (call me a wimp but If i ever saw anything like that in the woods i would turn tale and run all the way back to town. Forget trying to shoot it. )

[k001k47]

liek dis?

OK, that's cute, but in case you don't know, fake.

I don't doubt it for a second, but it doesn't detract from it being a huge boar.

[Todd S. Malicoate]

liek dis?

OK, that's cute, but in case you don't know, fake.

I don't doubt it for a second, but it doesn't detract from it being a huge boar.

Of course it does...duh. There's no way to know what size the boar really is...is could be an average size or even below average...it's been blown up to a disproportionate size...that's what makes it a fake. What a strange thing to say.

[tofu]

This picture and caption of a rotary Keefer is from the Tuba Exchange historical tuba site.

1925 BBb 3 Rotary
Comments:

"Brua C. Keefer / MAKER / Williamsport / pa" on bell. Emblem and ornate floral enraiving around identification marks. Floral engraving around clock spring housing.

[andrew the tuba player]

Now the second one is just cool. I'd love to play on that thing.