"Help, Cecil, help!"
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:14 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:22 pm
Meinl-Weston Model 36 (Bell Model, 5 valves, fixed bell). Probably from the early-mid 1970's.
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:54 pm
How much extra is the anti-gravity package?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.
Posted: 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...
Posted: 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?
Posted: 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.
Posted: 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!)
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:29 pm
Somehow, I'm not ready to believe that! Must be a hunt-and-peck typist.SERIAL#: 9393939393
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...
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 2:09 pm
Okay, since no one else has...
I'm a comin' Beanie Boy!
I'm a comin' Beanie Boy!
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:46 pm
Yes, Cecil the Sea-Sick Sea Serpent, Beanie, and Dirty JohnMark wrote:Okay, since no one else has...
I'm a comin' Beanie Boy!
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
Posted: 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?
"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?
Posted: 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?
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:48 pm
Good stuf. tasty tuba playing. Brought back some good memories. Thanks.
Chuck
Chuck