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or any instrument for that matter it just have to be different or untraditional

i think this would be a neat thread so i will get it started


a 7 Valve F Tuba played by Gary Buttery

Hey! There was a time when the Blaikley automatic compensating system looked crazy/unique/weird to people.

And I would prefer the more neutral term, "Singular," as these instruments do what they were intended to do for the people who play them, or they wouldn't be here.

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Here is another crazy/weird/unique tuba i found it on the internet one time and saved the picture...its obviously a photo shopped joke but its still neat...the asking price on the website that it was on was a whopping $52,000

<a href="http://s274.photobucket.com/albums/jj27 ... t=tuba.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj27 ... 7/tuba.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

sorry posted the picture wrong but here it is again

Probably the strangest tuba/euphonium I have ever actually played: It was found in a Canadian pawn shop by the fellow in the 3rd picture - it was made for the RCMP Band.
I played it and took the other pictures maybe 15 years ago. No idea where the horn is now...

looks like an "Antoniophone" styled instrument. Definitely unique!

tubatom91 wrote:looks like an "Antoniophone" styled instrument. Definitely unique!

Yes, I have seen single bell versions (in books and web collections) but never a double!

It was pretty stuffy playing on the small bell, OK on the big.

This thread has a very strange Double-Bell Bass Helicon:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=33720

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