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http://www.ebay.com/itm/Reynold-Tuba-Mi ... Sw5VFWOsIk

Local pickup only in La Mesa.

I reckon this would be the 170 model or similar, largish tuba with some similarities to the King 1240. Might take a while to round up a bell - rumor has it that some Martin detachable bell fits, but that's probably even scarcer.

I have a recording bell for one of these.

Did you see the one-hour pickup window? Whacko seller. It'll be a fire-sale price.

You could probably get somebody to make a 6.whatever" tenon, and there's probably enough tuning slide pull that a common replacement bell like Miraphone 186 or YBB-321 could be mounted to it instead of the original skyscraper bell. Very chancy, only worth it at giveaway price.

I believe here in the archives one would find reports of other bells matched to the 170 type Reynolds. In addition to the Martin, a Conn Eb bell that I think was just grafted on as a fixed bell. But I didn't see anything about what I'd think would be the obvious guess, that the King 1240 bell would be interchangeable. Of course the first thing would be to check in with Tabor about his bell section mentioned above. And you'd have a water key to replace and probably some other issues.

Anyway, hope whoever walks off with it at the appointed hour will put it back into service - I guess they aren't universally esteemed by all who've played them, but at least by some accounts they're pretty good full size contrabass tubas. If I had found one at a good price I'd have bought it instead of my 1240, but the only ones to be had were the same that have been floating around on ebay forever at $2-$3K. (But I'm not driving 1200 miles down the coast in November to pick up half of one!)

As for pickup time ... who knows, they might be willing to schedule an alternate pickup time, but I think it's the nature of such things that eventually you'd have to make a time that's convenient to the seller anyway, likely a very similar week day morning. So they spell that out, and avoid a buyer who can only come over at 11PM Saturday night.

The tuba is so tall, a Reynolds sousaphone bell could go on and you could probably still see. The recording bell is pretty sousaphony anyways.

King bell is a smaller tenon, so the Reynolds tuba sitting forever on Ebay that appears to have a King bell is a mystery.

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=68884" target="_blank Whoever got it check out Tabors post.