"Help, Cecil, help!"

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:14 pm

Anybody familiar with this model?

http://cgi.ebay.com/TUBA-MEINL-WESTON-N ... dZViewItem

Ed Jones · Post by **Ed Jones** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:22 pm

Meinl-Weston Model 36 (Bell Model, 5 valves, fixed bell). Probably from the early-mid 1970's.

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:54 pm

bloke wrote:On that "orginal" version, you could swap those two parallel upper 5th slides around (in a diagonal, rather than in a "box") and basically convert the thing to a 4-rotor BBb.

How much extra is the anti-gravity package?

MikeMason · Post by **MikeMason** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:05 am

Looks like it could be a pretty sweet quintet/all around horn.But for the price,I'd really have to play it before i bid...

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:09 am

I've been wondering about that -- how's the intonation (and consistency) on the Bell model M-Ws?

Ed Jones · Post by **Ed Jones** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:38 am

Stuffy low register due to the small bore (.687). Flat 3rd (G=1-3) and 5th partials. Nice mid and upper registers. I pegged this horn as an early-mid 1970's model due to the uniball linkages and the wide main tuning slide.

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:55 am

The William Bell model originally came with either upright or recording bells in your choice of BBb or CC (that's right, this came as a CC recording bass!)

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:29 pm

SERIAL#: 9393939393

Somehow, I'm not ready to believe that! Must be a hunt-and-peck typist.

An interesting thing is that you can find one of these with a removable bell that was made after the fixed-bell version. MW introduced an "anniversary" model of this instrument with said bell after having produced the fixed-bell version.

Were any of Bill Bell horns good players? I've heard from folks who played his Eb sousa that it was an intonation nightmare...

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 2:09 pm

Okay, since no one else has...

I'm a comin' Beanie Boy!

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:46 pm

Mark wrote:Okay, since no one else has...

I'm a comin' Beanie Boy!

Yes, Cecil the Sea-Sick Sea Serpent, Beanie, and Dirty John

I wonder if anyone here remembers "Wonderama" and the short shown on the show called "Diver Dan", had the WORST production value next to a "Clutch Cargo" cartoon, but kept my brother and me in rapt attention to the TV. I wish I could remember the barracuda's name.

Chuck"memory lane"Jackson

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:49 pm

I don't know if Clutch Cargo was any worse than "Bucky and Pepito" or "Koko the Clown". I used to watch them on Garfield Goose and Friends with Frazier Thomas (though thought it was a neat trick to sing "Jingle Bells" in Latin).

"Beany and Cecil" was done by Bob Clampett, who directed a huge number of Warner Bros. (Porky, Daffy, etc.) cartoons. It was very strange.

So who played tuba on the opening credits of the "Beany and Cecil Show"? Dishonest John?

eupher61 · Post by **eupher61** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:21 am

Was that a Besson F that Mr Bell played? Didn't he have a King F at one time, also? If that's true, what's the story behind THAT?

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:48 pm

Good stuf. tasty tuba playing. Brought back some good memories. Thanks.

Chuck