Tuba ID, please!

[imperialbari]

Citizen Kane posted this photo in another thread.

Maker?

CC or BBb?

I don’t know whether it is Brian's own tuba, but I would like a rear view also to better telling the wrap.

Klaus

[Ken Herrick]

The engraving on the bell is "Wurlitzer". Other than that, well, I dunno.....

The first valve/leadpipe configuration is pretty rare but, I can't recall where I have seen it before.

[imperialbari]

The 1st valve wrap is the one seen with the 5th valve of B&S F tubas like bloke's. It is the second sample of this wrap coming to my eyes within very few days.

The Tivoli Gardens' boy guard band retires its members the year they turn 16, so their tubists often are fairly short when they enter the band at age 11 or 12. The band therefor ordered two 4 valve B&S tubas that had this configuration for their 1st valves so that the leadpipes could be set very low. One repairman was very surprised, when he pulled the slides and could not look through the valve block with all valves untouched.

Klaus

[imperialbari]

Brian, did you change the airpath?

Klaus

[imperialbari]

I guess that filing was easier in California than it would have been on the bank if the Potomac.

So that 1st valve wrap isn't original?

Klaus