Is anyone curious about what tuba this might be?

[Steve Marcus]

From the DailyAdvance.com:

Alaskans to Sort Klondike Memorabilia

By ANNE SUTTON
Associated Press Writer

SKAGWAY, Alaska — Debra Sanders unlatches a padlock and swings open the door to reveal a room jammed with boxes, steamer trunks, a roulette wheel, wicker furniture, phonographs, mannequins dressed in gold rush garb, a wooden boat, a brass tuba and long rows of shelves crammed with curios.

The objects belong to what is called the Rapuzzi Collection. Amassed by two Skagway old-timers, Martin Itjen and his friend George Rapuzzi, over the better part of the last century, the collection was sold to a private foundation last month for $1 million by Rapuzzi's niece, Phyllis Brown.

[LoyalTubist]

Let me tell you as an antique collector: Depending on how far north you go and how cold it stays all year, Alaska and other near Arctic areas of the world are great for some great finds. The folks in the gold rushes, exploration expeditions, and the ones who just moved there to get away from everything were extremely eccentric. They would own tubas.

[Chuck(G)]

Without a photo, given the expertise of the domestic press corps, it could well be an alto horn.

[Mark]

Without a photo, given the expertise of the domestic press corps, it could well be an alto horn.

Based on what I've seen on ebay, it might be a French Horn.

[LoyalTubist]

Right Chuck, my new employer got a picture of me playing tuba for a class of elementary school children. I kept repeating, "It's a tuba."

Bill Long, the new High School Resource Teacher from California, plays his saxophone for the children in Primary 1A at SIS in HCMC.

[Steve Marcus]

Coming from Alaska, it won't need a cryogenic treatment...