FS: Marzan BBb Tuba: Sold

[b.williams]

I am selling my Marzan BBb 4 valve tuba.

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[Untersatz]

Is it me, or is the valve-set mounted way higher than most front action horns?

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[Dan Schultz]

I've sold a couple of BBb rotary versions.

It occurred to me that

- the pitch was good enough so-as the "tune-any-note" feature was not really necessary.
- the left hand position of the "tune-any-note" slide wasn't particularly comfortable.

I'm glad you qualified that by saying 'BBb rotary' because the CC piston horns have a terrible set of 1st valve partials. Go figure.

[Dan Schultz]

I don't think a whole bunch of r&d had gone into CC-tubas-in-general at that time.

Most, seemingly, were cut-downs of BBb versions.

186's were about the most useable...Some of those were squirrelly.

The standard joke is that the 'tune on the fly' option was mandated because of the intonation quirks of the CC Marzan!