My first CC: Melton 2145

oedipoes · Post by **oedipoes** » Thu Jan 17, 2013 5:01 am

It says 'Melton Spezial Jon Sass' on the goldbrass bell, and has a inscription 'haagston' as well.
Great tuba, great sound!
Great addition next to the Willson BBb.
Now just me getting used to CC playing...

Wim

Alex C · Post by **Alex C** » Thu Jan 17, 2013 8:08 pm

Sweet horn. The switch to C fingerings can be hard if you use the BBb much. Concentrate on the new fingerings.

Bob Kolada · Post by **Bob Kolada** » Thu Jan 17, 2013 9:28 pm

Any chance of a picture of it next to your giant tubas?

Michael Bush · Post by **Michael Bush** » Thu Jan 17, 2013 9:46 pm

Yep. I learned to play c very easily once there were no BBb tubas in the house and it was no longer an experiment. Until then it was just about impossible.

Beautiful horn, BTW.

corbasse · Post by **corbasse** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 5:27 am

As a product of the Belgian music education system and a brassband player Wim should have no trouble at all with the fingerings. People here are well trained in (sight)reading several clefs and he's used as a brassbander to reading C & G as open notes.
He'll just have to get used to the instrument

(Wim, can you bring it to rehearsal sometime? I'd love to try it, as I'm sure the others would

)

tubajedimaster · Post by **tubajedimaster** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 8:03 am

What's the diameter of the bell? It appears rather small? Do you get a rather bright sound from the horn?

oedipoes · Post by **oedipoes** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 1:00 pm

tubajedimaster wrote:What's the diameter of the bell? It appears rather small? Do you get a rather bright sound from the horn?

410mm, sound is not bright at all.

oedipoes · Post by **oedipoes** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 1:01 pm

Bob Kolada wrote:Any chance of a picture of it next to your giant tubas?

There you go ...

toobagrowl · Post by **toobagrowl** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 11:11 am

Nice tuba. But I'm most interested in that old Kaiser BBb on the left.

Is it a Bohland & Fuchs?

oedipoes · Post by **oedipoes** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 4:11 pm

tooba wrote:Nice tuba. But I'm most interested in that old Kaiser BBb on the left. Is it a Bohland & Fuchs?

Read more in this post about the same tuba:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=31671&hilit=kaiser
It could be a B&F but it could as well have been made by another Graslitzer tuba manufacturer in the 1930's ...

The only inscription on the bell is an inventory number from the "Stadt-Orchester Freiburg Im Breisgau". See picture.

Wim

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