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Dang! I need to have one of these!

http://cgi.ebay.com/1-2-SIZE-TUBA-COUES ... 33486d8efb

I bought my old now-gone Conn stencil Eb from there. From what I hear he picks them up as he travels. He doesn't really know brass instruments that well, but is a super nice guy.
When I went there he also had some neat horns not listed- a tiny 3 rotary valve F tuba, a clean 4 top piston Eb (odd brand name, needed work on one of the valves), lots of sousas and helicons,....

I'll be in the area next week so there's a good chance I'll check out what he has.

Perhaps someone who knows him could politely ask what he meant when he listed this tuba as "enharmonic compensating"???

Todd S. Malicoate wrote:Perhaps someone who knows him could politely ask what he meant when he listed this tuba as "enharmonic compensating"???

That would be a good question -- maybe the person he got it from described it as such. The pictures show the leadpipe going into the first valve (rather than the third, as on an enharmonic compensator), and it's missing the extra valve tubing and slides on the back of the valve block for the alternate air path. "Is a puzzlement" ...

Here's a link to Charley Brighton's Euphonium-Baritone page:

http://www.euph9.freeserve.co.uk/neweuph.htm

If you scroll down about a third of the way, you'll find a couple of pictures of a Besson enharmonic euphonium (and explanation of the system). Hope this helps!

Todd S. Malicoate wrote:Perhaps someone who knows him could politely ask what he meant when he listed this tuba as "enharmonic compensating"???

Oh... I emailed the seller shortly before I did the original post. They haven't responded. These guys sell lots of horns and ought to know a little something about the business. However.... a person doesn't have to be too bright to see that the horn in question is a plain old three-valved tuba.

I just wondered where the goofy description came from.

Looks like someone cleaned it with steel wool -- and not the '000' variety either.

Rick F wrote:Looks like someone cleaned it with steel wool -- and not the '000' variety either.

Yes, but it probably removed a great deal of the "patina", anyway...

windshieldbug wrote:

Rick F wrote:Looks like someone cleaned it with steel wool -- and not the '000' variety either.

Yes, but it probably removed a great deal of the "patina", anyway...

It's probably "patina pending" ...

(is it just me, or does that mouthpiece not go into the receiver very far?)

Plain sales hype for a very plain Couesnon student model. Nothing compensating or enharmonic about this one.

Klaus

Whatever his "skills," I bought a very fine King recording from him. Good seller, just maybe not a tubist

J.c.