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bloke wrote: RISKING putting a potential buyer "off" (and these can be played
HOWEVER AN INDIVIDUAL PLAYER CHOOSES TO PLAY THEM - just as with any other type of tuba)
here's a "banda" player demonstrating the "upper limits" of one of them.
(NOLA street band players would also tend to put out a somewhat similar demo.)

Or May put a buyer "On"

These are really nice horns. Maybe one day I'll see the light.

Thanks, but the 1936 Conn Cavalier I have access to does quite nicely.

bloke wrote:

iiipopes wrote:Thanks, but the 1936 Conn Cavalier I have access to does quite nicely.

My own (oddball fiberglass yet 4-valve) sousaphone is Conn.
I used to be an ardent "Conn sousaphone" person.
Since that time (particularly having learn to appreciate the .687" bore instruments when playing in brass bands),
I've learned to understand why so many NOLA musicians gravitate towards (own) King sousaphones.

I guess I'll keep what I've got, but...

I agree: the King and similar (Jupiter, JP, others?) are the BEST NOLA and other Dixieland style souzys: with the .687 bore and bugle taper and other design characteristics, you can get more push and drive out of them to support the rest of the band than any other souzy. Conn and other .734-ish souzys (Selmer/Bundy, Yammy, etc.) are big, round, but almost too polite in their characteristics for such.

And I don't play those gigs enough to warrant having a second souzy, or trade around what I already have, so I will dance with the girl I brought to the prom.