Horn Idenity question

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http://www.horn-u-copia.net/picture.php ... y-Tuba.jpg" target="_blank

What kind of tuba is this?
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beforeforever12 wrote:http://www.horn-u-copia.net/picture.php ... y-Tuba.jpg" target="_blank

What kind of tuba is this?
Old.

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beforeforever12 wrote:http://www.horn-u-copia.net/picture.php ... y-Tuba.jpg" target="_blank

What kind of tuba is this?
The name of the image clearly says 'Cerveny. I would agree.

It's probably a modern-pitched Eb or F.
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The HP-to-LP conversion loop in the main tuning slide indicates that this instrument originally was made before the pitch reform of 1920.

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