My summer practice tuba

[Michael Bush]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/140599275707?ss ... 500wt_1064" target="_blank

I listed it as what I thought it was, an oddly unmarked Olds 99. Someone wrote and said the bracing and first valve slide are wrong, and maybe that's so.

Which means I don't know what it is. The guy who sold it to me thought it was a Conn, but I can't find any Conn that looks like this. Who knows.

Whatever it is, it's a beater ex-school instrument with the usual dents and solder repairs. It has done what I needed it to do, keep my chops in shape this summer.

[Michael Bush]

Do any of the lore masters have thoughts about what this might be, if it's not actually an Olds, as I have thought?

Bloke? TubaTinker? Others?

[bort]

It doesn't look like my former Olds O-99.

Maybe a Reynolds or something?

[Dan Schultz]

I don't think this is an Olds, Reynolds, Conn, or any other of the old US-made brands.

I would come closer to thinking this is a German (maybe Meinl) or Czech tuba from the 60's or 70's. Could be French, too.

Just don't know. But... I do know it's not an Olds 0-099.

A better picture of one of the valve caps would help. Maybe a better picture of the bow ferrule profile.

[MikeMason]

bach? marched to the beat of it's own drummer...

[Michael Bush]

Thanks, gentlemen!