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You'll need sunglasses and $18K for this baby!......er BAT!!



at Lee Stofer's Joint

after viewing the image I went out and put on SPF 36 - just in case.

All that AND a lyre and some valve oil. Who puts a lyre holder on something like that?

dmmorris wrote:You'll need sunglasses and $18K for this baby!......er BAT!!



at Lee Stofer's Joint

I was hoping to see a back-view picture of it. Still though...wow! Anyone know whose horn this was? It is "used" (can't you tell?).

I suspect that this is the same tuba as in the following link:

viewtopic.php?t=2529

Almost as beautiful as the horn is the ("faux?") snakeskin hard case. The case alone will turn some heads. I did get to try this horn at the USABTEC, and I must say it is even more beautiful in person than in pictures, down to the egraving on the valve paddles. It is really a professional orchestral tuba, although in this country it's less likely to find use as such unlike how it would be used in its country of origin. It was way too much horn for me, as a rank amateur, but is a great horn in many ways. The main tuning slide is larger than anything I have ever seen. I believe that it is over an inch in inner diameter.

I was fortunate enough to have seen this 6/4 Rudy BBb at the factory in Diespeck before it was shipped to the United States. Mr. Meinl, Jr. was working on a helicon of mine when he led me to the tuba shipping room and showed it to me while it was in the plastic. What followed next could be described as T.S.S. (Tubist Salivation Syndrome)! A beautiful piece of German craftmanship, indeed.

How dare that Airman refrain from supporting the bottom bow with his low quarter to prevent scratches to it on the runway tarmac . Doh!

Jonathantuba wrote:...a B&S Neptune 6/4 CC which although BIG, is still smaller than the 5/4 Rudy....

I have noticed that. The 5/4 Rudy CC is certainly a large 6/4 by anyone else's standards. I am familiar with the Rudy 3/4 CC, and it is the equal of anyone else's 4/4 CC. I think the best size designation for this big Rudy BBb is 7/4!

I'd love to buy this tuba, except I lack a few things: the probable ability to play it, the money to buy it, the room to store it, the willingness to schlep around and hold such a big instrument, and probably a few other things I haven't thought of yet.

Cheers,
Allen

I would have a toe under that bottom bow if it was mine. I could not own a tuba that shiny. Women would stop by to repair their makeup in it. The sun would be brutal if you got it on the wrong side. You could get sued for blinding somebody with it. People would think I had money with that shiny a tuba and would mug me and take it.

Matthew Kaufman wrote:Luckily the Rudy is built like a tank and took no damage at all.
--Matt

Did it dent his foot?

I would put it in a tuba stand, place it on one of those rotating platters, get a red, a green and a white spotlight to shine on it, put a lighted star in the bell or Santa coming out of it and place it rotating round & round in front of my living room window at Christmas.

Wouldn't need a Christmas tree anymore with this thing.

Really truly is a stunning piece of craftmanship.

Wouldn't want to spend the day polishing all of that silver surface though!