CL Antique Kaiser? Tuba - 4 valve

[Mcordon1]

Ahh so cool!

[Wyvern]

Going by how that main tuning slide loops around and around and it is already to high pitch makes me wonder if this might be a good one to convert to CC???

It certainly looks big!

[bort]

I can't get over that looooooooooooong leadpipe. Maybe it's not even any longer than other tubas. Just looks pretty exposed.

Also, this looks kind of like that Mitsching tuba at Dillon's (though the similarities might end just at "big" and "old"):

[k001k47]

Wow, that is cool! I agree it might be better in CC if it's in BB natural with a tuning slide that long.

Does the dollar bill come with the tuba? I want that dollar bill.

[Mcordon1]

The CL ad was deleted. I wonder where it is now...

That Mitsching horn looks very much like my weirdo Cerveny Kaiser. My horn was made in low pitch and had to be cut, and it plays in 440 with the tuning slide almost all the way in, just like the Mitsching. Other similarities: 4V CC with the same bore, my bell is .2 inches larger, the branches(just shifted over away from the bugle), horizontal tuning slide, raw brass. The leadpipe is obviously different and my Cerveny is only 38" tall.

I saw an old Cerveny catalog and the pictures of the 691(my model) had a vertical tuning slide(like the modern 601's have). I wonder how mine become horizontal.

I guess they're all "big" and "old"

(it is now very brown, I'm too lazy to keep the raw brass shiny)

[bigbob]

nice tuba Mike sure looks shiny to me.... I wonder why the guy pulled his ad from Craiglist?? very nice looking horn!!..........BB