Reynolds 4 Valve BBb Tuba -- Bell front

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Re: Reynolds 4 Valve BBb Tuba -- Bell front

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Good tubas. Indeed... the valve section is within a few thousanths of an inch of being the same as that of a King.
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Re: Reynolds 4 Valve BBb Tuba -- Bell front

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My recollection of these old horns makes me think that anybody wanting to pick up a decent BBb at a possibly cheap price should be going for this. It looks like the valves could use a set of Blokes HOLY MOLYs and who knows, maybe a valve refit - maybe not either.

In the early 60s these were available with a trigger on the first valve slide and even with the 3v models, with that trigger, which could easily be installed here, it should be a very easy horn to play in tune with a good sound.

It should not be too hard to get an upright bell to go with it, in fact I seem to recall having seen one or two on ebay recently.

Might go buy an instant lottery ticket so I can bid on it and a few other sales here and there.

my opinion - buy it!!!!!
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Re: Reynolds 4 Valve BBb Tuba -- Bell front

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hrender wrote:Someone got it for $990. They got quite a deal, from what I can tell.
Yeah. I was sleepin' on this one, too!
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