Mercedes tuba

Tom Mason · Post by **Tom Mason** » Fri May 11, 2012 10:20 am

I am interested in some information about a BBb tuba I got off of eBay. It appears to be a stencil of a VMI or PT 3; 16 1/2 inch 4 rotors and a .750 bore through the rotors. Will post pictures later,

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Fri May 11, 2012 10:27 am

Tom Mason wrote:I am interested in some information about a BBb tuba I got off of eBay. It appears to be a stencil of a VMI or PT 3; 16 1/2 inch 4 rotors and a .750 bore through the rotors. Will post pictures later,

If it's this one http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... true&rt=nc... it appears to be a VMI stencil. At first glance I would say it's a model 101 stencil but the main slide looks more like a CC style loop.

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Fri May 11, 2012 10:56 am

bloke wrote:http://www.wwbw.com/VMI-2103-Series-4-V ... 18555.wwbw

Yup. Good eye, Joe.

imperialbari · Post by **imperialbari** » Fri May 11, 2012 10:57 am

Does the Mercedes name indicate that this tuba was marketed by Bach? The S-links might be back from that era some 30 years ago.

Klaus

Tom Mason · Post by **Tom Mason** » Fri May 11, 2012 11:14 am

I had suspected the same things I am seeing from your statements. Although Bach is never mentioned on the horn stenciling, It kinda made sense that Bach may have been the original seller. I will be getting three or four dents ironed out over the summer as money comes in from gigs, and I will be cleaning the rotors and casings. Plays pretty good as is. The most needed repairs are the dents taken out of the leadpipe, and some braces reattached.

muttenstrudel · Post by **muttenstrudel** » Thu May 17, 2012 9:35 pm

Does it run on gas or diesel?

muttenstrudel · Post by **muttenstrudel** » Fri May 18, 2012 1:14 am

B'nW or BMW? Or BNW (although that really sucks)?

Or BND? BAG? R'nB?

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