What's the best tuba you have...

[eupher61]

Its a new King 2341 that Lee Stofer tweaked from top to bottom, and most notably added a 5th valve that makes the low end sing and in tune too.

what kind of valve is added in? Placement? is it independent or in the 4th valve slide? sounds like a great deal!

steve

[bttmbow]

The York that Gene Pokorny gets to play every day.

Yep.

[bort]

to be honest, i think my nirschl is the best horn i have played

...and one more for the Firebird?

[pulseczar]

The best tuba I've played is the one in my head.

It's the most beautiful sound I've ever heard and whenever I play real tubas, I strive for that sound.

[Liberty Mo]

Its a new King 2341 that Lee Stofer tweaked from top to bottom, and most notably added a 5th valve that makes the low end sing and in tune too.

what kind of valve is added in? Placement? is it independent or in the 4th valve slide? sounds like a great deal!

steve

Steve,
It is an independant flat-whole-step 5th valve which allows me to play pretty-much in tune all the way to the pedal tones, making it fully chromatic throughout its entire range. For example, the 5-4 combination enables me to play low Eb in tune with no slide pulling. The valve assembly was fabricated from Mirafone tuba parts. It also has an alternate tuning slide (some sort of half step config) but I have not used it. It also has spit valves on all of the slides (no spining required), vented the valves, added a Dillon AGR, and a few other mods. It is an amazing horn, Im going to miss it.

Here are some pics:

[Mark E. Chachich]

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Mark

[windshieldbug]

It's paid for.

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