Pictures of famous players and their horns.

[Dylan King]

Dodger Stadium, 1989

[Ed Jones]

Fast forward to 1:07 in this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RDWLQFQGbI" target="_blank" target="_blank

[hbcrandy]

I will offer two other great players from the past, Don Butterfield and Bill Barber.

Bill Barber, to the best of my knowledge, played a King, rotary valved, CC tuba like Mr. Torchinsky's and Mr. Bell's. Don Butterfield played a King, piston valved BBb tuba. Please correct me if i am wrong.

[hbcrandy]

As the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century, Yogi Berra, said, "It ain't over 'til its over", I offer another name that I do not remember being mentioned in this post, John Fletcher.

Mr. Fletcher played both a Besson Eb and a Holton CC tuba.

[hbcrandy]

This is the only photo that i could find of Joe Novotny with the low brass of the New York Philharmonic in 1964. Joe also played a King CC tuba.

[tofu]

He may be Russian but the weapon was developed by ...wait for it... AN AMERICAN... HOOAH!!!
The Auto Assault-12 (AA-12), originally designed and known as the Atchisson Assault Shotgun, is a shotgun developed in 1972 by Maxwell Atchisson.

I could really use one of those when quail season opens back up here.

I don't know - look at how poorly that thing was able to hit the targets from almost point blank range. Supposedly will fire 300 a minute but the big bulky clip only holds 20. How many of those are you going to lug around in the field and how many could you actually clip in and out in a minute. I think I will hang on to my Remington 870 pump and my 1100 autoload and leave that thing to the street garbage. I also don't believe that guy is Russian. Did he get that accent from these guys:

[Frank Ortega]

When Don Butterfield played Tubby the Tuba, he used a King Eb Sousaphone.

[jrobba]

Bill Murray and Tommy Johnson

[jwjeffrey]

2 of my favorites

[MikeW]

Maybe not the most famous of tubists, but definitely a famous tuba:

http://www.musicweb-international.com/h ... /biog6.htm

[eupher61]

he is a helluva playa. horns not shown in all of these.

[Ulli]

No pics from The Chief, Red Cloud, here?

[gary]

orville

[MrHidan30]

2 of my favorites

What kind of mouthpiece does the top guy have?

[GC]

Looks like an R&S Heavywall. They made one that was supposedly a copy of the cup shape of the Conn Helleberg and one that was a copy of the Schilke Helleberg II, both with the same can-shaped exterior (maybe others, but I don't remember). I believe someone else made copies of these at one time.

[dsfinley]

Looks like an R&S Heavywall. They made one that was supposedly a copy of the cup shape of the Conn Helleberg and one that was a copy of the Schilke Helleberg II, both with the same can-shaped exterior (maybe others, but I don't remember). I believe someone else made copies of these at one time.

Tony Clements offers a line similar to this called the Tony Clemnts Signature Line. And I may be wrong but I think at one time Schilke made something like this, but I'm not for sure on that.

[Slamson]

I'm amazed that nobody's mentioned the mighty Joe Tarto - composer of the "White Horse Stomp"! I was fortunate enough to see him play in his (much) later years, when I was a mere E-flat lad.

[jwjeffrey]

2 of my favorites

What kind of mouthpiece does the top guy have?

The top guy is Howard Johnson and I believe evrybody said it was a jettone mouthpiece.

[Wyvern]

I'm amazed that nobody's mentioned the mighty Joe Tarto - composer of the "White Horse Stomp"! I was fortunate enough to see him play in his (much) later years, when I was a mere E-flat lad.

What is that tuba? With the thin top bow looks rather cimbasso like

[Heavy_Metal]

I think that's the tuba known as "Big Joe", which gave its name to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acruyj3Eh9M" target="_blank" target="_blank

Mr. Tarto co-wrote it with Paul Lavalle.