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I am selling my King Monster Eb tuba.
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Cool horn. Hopefully you pull down more than $400.00 bucks. I would buy it if I had the cash, but alas, I do not.

Neat! How is the intonation?

Intonation is as good as any other tuba. This horn gets a big sound. I was playing it with a Dennis Wick 1XL.

b.williams wrote:Intonation is as good as any other tuba.

So you're saying it's lousy?

No, it can be played in tune, just like any other tuba, once one identifies any problem notes and makes adjustments.

I thought I'd read that the big Kings have pretty good intonation. If you can check it up and down with a tuner and it doesn't have a flat low D, sharp 4th, flat 5th,... then I'd be interested. 13 and 123 combos don't worry me (and really, one or 2 off partials comes with the territory). Sure is a fine lookin horn!

The intonation is actually quite good. With a tuner, if Bb is good, low D is not flat. First line Bb is a little bit flat, and third space Eb is a little bit high, (Sorry, Bob), but both are lipable. It is very responsive to different mouthpieces. The so called false tones sound great. BTW, I don't have a proper mouthpiece for the horn. Using a Wick 1XL, the problem is getting Bb up to pitch. If you adjust your tuner down the tuba plays in tune with itself. If I were going to keep the horn, I would try different mouthpieces.

It's alright, every horn I play now has a sharp 4th partial; most of them also have a flat 5th!! 56J, 20K, medium King Eb,... FML.

I wish King would revisit these as they already have the bugle (both big and small) and valve set. The Kanstul is nice, but I'd much rather pay 4000 for one. A responsive, big bell, in tune Eb would be the friggin cats pajamas!