Short Action Holton Souzie

[TheHatTuba]

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Nice..... but not mine

[Dan Schultz]

I thought those valves were from Martin? Or am I thinking of another tuba? Which one had those split valve tubing like that - wasn't it Martin?
Holton had the short action but were cupped instead of a hole straight through.
I don't recall Buescher having short action valves

Any idea why there are two separate 2nd valve slides?

Holton or Buescher did indeed have a 'siamese' set of ports on this horn. The dual port passages were intended to shorten the piston stroke without decreasing the bore. Two smaller bores fed into one. This is a very rare sousaphone. Belongs in a museum.

The 'other' Holton short-action pistons look like this:

[Dan Schultz]

Well! Who bought it?

[tubatech]

Well! Who bought it?

does anybody know how much its worth ???

[Mikelynch]

I did not buy this. I do have a recording bell tuba by Harry B Jay with those valves. Lets say there could be a reason why we don't see more of these...

It's an interesting concept, but oval ports were a much better idea (particularly oval ports in the Allen rotary valves).

[tubatech]

maybe there is (conn 20k short action) lawsuit ??????