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http://cgi.ebay.com/Rare-Vintage-H-N-Wh ... 240%3A1318" target="_blank

Sick!

Practically speaking, this would be a good horn if a player needed to play standing up frequently. The horn would support itself! Might even sound better than the souzy which is frequently used in those sorts of situations...

What it would be like in the classic jazz trio- piano, bass, drums? The plucked string bass is pretty quiet so doesn't wash over everything. Wonder if substituting this would ruin it?

Agreed that this would be something cool 'just to have'. Not many people can afford things like that.

Unless you rigged up something along the lines of a bottom pin (ala a cimbasso) it is still too short to stand up and play it resting on the ground. Look at the light switch in the picture. The bottom of the light switch panel in my house come up to about my navel. I'm pretty tall, but not THAT tall.

I think Bloke hit it. Looks like the mouthpiece is in playing height with the player seated and the tuba's bow on the ground.

that's the idea behind it, to be able to sit in a pit and not take up a lot of sideways room.

Here's Phil Holcomb's pit tuba.

http://www.rugs-n-relics.com/Brass/tuba ... -Tuba.html" target="_blank" target="_blank

He outbid me for it, but frankly I wasn't willing to go as high as he did and it's better off in his hands anyway. The eBay auction that you referenced looks like a reasonable price for one of these, but I am paring down my horns to just the ones I use on a regular basis, or I would consider it. And yes, they were designed to be played in a stand, as shown in the ad in the link.