PT-20 CC with modifications

[cjk]

Not mine, but does this model really need to many tuning slide handles added to it?

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[Wyvern]

That is ridiculous!

My PT-20 has amazingly good intonation. I set the slides in their optimal positions using tuner when I first got it, and have never felt the need to pull any since.

My understanding is that the PT-20 was a completely new design (looking at the tube routing supports that), so there is no reason why it should have quirks from the old B&S piggy 'Symphonie'

[cjk]

Not mine, but does this model really need to many tuning slide handles added to it?

I've only played on a couple of that tuba's CC "Symphonie" predecessors, and THOSE tubas CERTAINLY needed all the help they could get in that department.

bloke "suspecting that the PT-20 probably has many of the same quirks as the old B&S piggy 'Symphonie' CC"

I drove to play one of those B&S 'Symphonie' piggy CCs that was relatively close to me quite some time ago (it was on ebay).

I didn't bid. Nice playing horn, but the sharp 3rd and 6th partial Gs weren't things I cared to mess with. Woulda been better than a Cerveny piggy tho'.

I expect that this PT-20 thing is a bit bigger than that, especially with its 19 inch bell.

[Chuck(G)]

Please forgive my ignorance.

...but isn't the PT-20 sort of a large-bell version of the PT-4? IIRC, the PT-4 wasn't a bad horn at all. I've only played the piston version of both and, while the sound wasn't my cuppa tea, they weren't real stinkers.