Anyone care to explain this horn?
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 2:25 am
I received this picture in an e-mail a few days ago, and all I can say is... "Why?!"
12 Bells, 8 valves.
12 Bells, 8 valves.
I actually thought it was a scheme at first to! I've seen them on YouTube and on eBay a few times, but nothing quite like this. Apparently from what I found out, this is actually in the selmer collection in paris. Why on earth would it need 12 bells though???goodgigs wrote:Wow, with that title and you being new on the forum, I figured to see my horn, but instead a photo shopped version of a German scheme horn.
These were horns with usually three or four bells and occasionally seven, but I've never seen twelve. They started out as a fixed reed mouthpiece
type instrument but have bin "upgraded" to trombone (brass) mouthpiece later.
One that I saw was a sousaphone with seven bells in a flower bouquet form from Amati. Really cool looking !
In case you haven't seen my stealth tuba yet :
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Multiple valves and one bell would just be so much simpler
And I think I've seen your horn in person! Do you play at the Sacramento Tuba Christmas every year??