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Here I am again with questions to the experts about an ebay horn. (yes money is tight)
This particular tuba is the subject of a thread in another forum here at TubeNet, so I'll avoid going the direction that one is and just ask if anyone is familiar with the make of this one.
Also, how do you "speed up" a sluggish 4th valve?
Got luck with the purchase of an old 1920 Conn with 3 top piston valves a year ago before I knew about TubaNet. Trying to make a good deal for a 4 valve now that I have access to deep thinkers
Fritz Horst - tuba
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That 'sluggish 4th valve' could be a lot of things ranging from just dirt and/or mineral deposits to a bad spring to bent linkage... all of which are fairly easy to fix. There is a chance the rotor shaft is bent, the back cap is miss-aligned or the casing has a ding in it.
It's hard to say where the tuba originated or the manufacturer because there isn't much detail in the photos. However, I would venture a guess that the horn is Czech or Russian. That funky brace between the main tuning slide and the bottom branch looks like my Walter Sear-Cerveny (Czech).
It's hard to say where the tuba originated or the manufacturer because there isn't much detail in the photos. However, I would venture a guess that the horn is Czech or Russian. That funky brace between the main tuning slide and the bottom branch looks like my Walter Sear-Cerveny (Czech).
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