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The instrument listed for sale is a "Neuwertige Ophikléide zu verkaufen. (Firma Syhre, Leipzig)"
So it is a rotary valve ophicleide made by Syhre in Leipzig with radial flow valves from Meinlschmidt. It was too interesting not to share. http://www.tubaforum.de/html/kaufen.html

It's a German site so the rest of the translation will have to come from someone else. It is an interesting site at any rate.

Would be interesting to hear its sound compared to a 'real' keyed ophicleide

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It is listed under the heading 'Cimbasso'. Looks pretty run-of-the-mill for a recreation...

nycbone wrote:It looks like just another variation on the saxhorn, tuba, cimbasso or whatever you want to call it theme.

Yes, just another wretched valved brass. Cimbasso too - originally, so I suppose properly, a keyed instrument, true?