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You go, Bob!

You're not just teasing us,are you?

Make sure the false tones are good!

C'mon, somebody sell Bob a 1291. Good choice!!!

Just be patient, Bob. Take your time and wait for you want to come along. Remember that there aren't "used tuba lots" in every city.

P.S. If you don't buy a full-sized CC or BBb and buy another peashooter instead, we are going to form a mob and come looking for you.

a used 2141 (and a very good one) coming up for sale in the area shortly. I'll let you know more as I keep my ear to the ground. Damn that makes my ear dirty!

Roger

MartyNeilan wrote:Just be patient, Bob. Take your time and wait for you want to come along. Remember that there aren't "used tuba lots" in every city.

P.S. If you don't buy a full-sized CC or BBb and buy another peashooter instead, we are going to form a mob and come looking for you.

That's 'Bobtensixt-EYE-two', not 'Bobtensixt-EE-two'...

Roger Lewis wrote:a used 2141 (and a very good one) coming up for sale in the area shortly. I'll let you know more as I keep my ear to the ground. Damn that makes my ear dirty!

I haven't tried it, but a stethoscope might be a good idea, if you do this often.

the horn is now in the fore sale section - Dan Clouse's 2141 post there. This is a very good horn. Dan and I both went over it carfully when he got it from Brasswind.

Get with him and see if you can make something happen. Personally, I think you'd do better with a contrabass tuba rather than a bass tuba. We get paid below the staff not above it.

Just my thoughts.
Roger

Bob

Have to agree with Roger WAIT for a contrabass

Ferguson Music in CA has a 4 valve 1291 BBb.

hornguys.com

check it out!

I went to school with Dan Clouse (waaaay back in the day), I'm sure it's a good horn, an he's an honest guy. Maybe after he sells his eefer, he'll go back to the 621F. I liked his sound on it! Give him a call.

Roger Lewis wrote:Personally, I think you'd do better with a contrabass tuba rather than a bass tuba.

Eric "the suspense is killing me " L.

I guess the title of this thread (and most of your comments in it), led me to believe you were considering contrabasses as well as eefers. If that's not the case, then party on with your bad self in the key of your choice.

Eric

I am selling a Miraphone 186 BBb 4 rotary, if you are still looking for a tuba! Just PM me or look at my post:

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Greg wrote: you cannot run a taxi service if you are driving a skateboard.

Since this thread seems to be devoted to such philosophical musings, here's a question about taxis and skateboards, if I may. I don't know about Bob, but I have sure got the Eb religion, a recent convert thanks to a collection of old junkers crowned by an old 3 valve Pan American Eb Giant Bass.

But in a way, I know it's an absurd instrument, a little bigger than ideal for a bass tuba, and too thin below 8 foot C to be an honest contrabass. Very likely a Bb tuba would serve better at a simple technical level - more in tune, more authoritative down in the basement.

So my question: where would one look for a Bb tuba that sounds like a great big Eb? Responsive, lively, maybe "gritty" if that makes sense, but with an easy singing quality. I just got home from sitting next to a couple of Miraphone 186s, in the hands of better players than me, and apparently it isn't that tuba, nor do I remember the 190 I used to play that way. I have a big old Conn sousaphone, that ain't it. 20J? Smaller tuba, like the Olds O99 and similar?

Greg wrote:Would that be a Yamaha 621 BBb? Small enough that there isn't much depth of sound. Also a small enough bore that the high register can sing. But yet it has an easy low register.

Or maybe a Miraphone 184?

Hard to believe a tuba with this wide open sound would come from Germany. It could make some sense that it would have a small bore - maybe like the Holton TU331, or an older tuba with similar build.

"Not much depth of sound" doesn't seem quite right - we don't want to end up recommending a skateboard. More like, tone isn't buried in a tub.

Well, if someone is not a "stovepipe guy" he isn't going to like a 184, which can be made to just plain bark if needed. It also has an incredibly open low range from C below the staff down to pedal C, that anyone with lungs can play. But "Bob O' No Tuba Yet" is not a Stovepipe Guy.

Ma