B&S PT-5. Know anything?

[toobagrowl]

A couple of recordings of me playing the PT-5 in different ensemble settings. it has such a warm, phat sound

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/817 ... k%2012.mp3" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/817 ... k%2003.mp3" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank"

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/817 ... Pranks.mp3" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank

Very nice, man. I like that tuba sound! B&S should have still offered the PT-5P. That tuba seems to project well, with a warm, yet more lively sound than the PT-6P. Welcome; hope you post more in the future

[bort]

What group is that? Sounds awesome!

I haven't seen a 5-valve PT-5 before. Is that original or added on later?

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What group is that? Sounds awesome!

I haven't seen a 5-valve PT-5 before. Is that original or added on later?

[K5JMH]

Very nice, man. I like that tuba sound! B&S should have still offered the PT-5P. That tuba seems to project well, with a warm, yet more lively sound than the PT-6P. Welcome; hope you post more in the future

I agree! I love that horn. I love my 186-CC but the PT-5 just has such a great sound and fills any size room.

What group is that? Sounds awesome!

The Lost Lady Found was a small group of brass and percussion from the University of Houston Wind Ensemble in 1997 at TMEA play as accompaniment for a choral group that was performing.
Pomp and Circumstance No. 1 was the Texas Music Festival Orchestra at the Woodlands Pavillion.
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks was the University of Houston Wind Ensemble

I haven't seen a 5-valve PT-5 before. Is that original or added on later?

Very much original, other than the tuning slide being modified. This was also a prototype horn. As best as I can remember, the only one of these variants made.

[toobagrowl]

Has anyone played the Jinbao PT-5 ?

Does it have a 5th valve ?

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If Jinbao, Wisemann, Eastman produced a PT-5(P) clone, it would likely sound better than the PT-6P clone, based on what I've heard/experienced so far

Waiting for the backlash

[bigboymusic]

Here are a couple shots showing the wrap. I wish I still had this one. It was velvety smooth and had tremendous volume. The main problem was that I had to lip up a lot with the tuning slide all the way in. Back in the pre internet days, the main advice I received was, sell it, get another horn that works..... They were the best pistons I ever played on.

http://s1380.photobucket.com/user/Paul_ ... t=3&page=1" target="_blank" target="_blank

[toobagrowl]

^ I like that funky wrap of the old proto PT-5(P). Looks like the leadpipe was changed a couple times on that horn, from the time you owned it to it's current owner, ginnboonmiller.

I still have my old Custom Music catalogs/papers that feature the PT-5, along with the other models. Since the PT-5(P) was only a prototype model and never went into full production, I wonder how many were made
It's really interesting to see how prototypes vary compared to the later production models.....i.e.: the proto rotary M-W 2155, then the production piston 2155; the tall proto rotary PT-4, then the squat rotary & piston production PT-4(P), etc.

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the tall proto rotary PT-4, then the squat rotary & piston production PT-4(P), etc.

Ooh... I'm not sure I've seen that one. Got a picture?

[toobagrowl]

the tall proto rotary PT-4, then the squat rotary & piston production PT-4(P), etc.

Ooh... I'm not sure I've seen that one. Got a picture?

There is one picture of it in one of my old Custom Music catalogs. I can take a pic of it and send thru email if you want? Custom Music soon changed the pic to the squat production PT-4 in the next catalog. The proto PT-4 looks identical to this "PT-5" (which I believe to be a proto PT-4):
http://s1114.photobucket.com/user/mooks ... sort=3&o=1
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=45697&p=396811&hilit=mooks#p396811

[ginnboonmiller]

Bloke, didn't I call you out for trolling about the wrong PT-5, like, 8 years ago? I can't teach you anything.

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the tall proto rotary PT-4, then the squat rotary & piston production PT-4(P), etc.

Ooh... I'm not sure I've seen that one. Got a picture?

There is one picture of it in one of my old Custom Music catalogs. I can take a pic of it and send thru email if you want? Custom Music soon changed the pic to the squat production PT-4 in the next catalog. The proto PT-4 looks identical to this "PT-5" (which I believe to be a proto PT-4):
http://s1114.photobucket.com/user/mooks ... sort=3&o=1
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=45697&p=396811&hilit=mooks#p396811

Man, that's a good looking tuba. Now, I know how a tuba plays and how a tuba looks are totally different and unrelated, but still, by looks, I'd take that prototype over the squatty one any day.

I played a squatty PT-3 in college. Good tuba, but I never liked the way it looked. That's one good thing -- when you're playing it, you don't have to look at it!

[ginnboonmiller]

No need to apologize - that was possibly the worst trolly joke I've ever made, and I've made many. But, if you look at my ex-tuba, the valve section is uncannily ripped off from that york. That horn sounded really special.

[southtubist]

I sat next to someone everyday for a year who played one of these. We played in band and brass ensemble, and the player also sounded good in orchestra. I liked the sound. It is a bigger tuba than you'd think- basically the same body size as a PT 6.

[J.c. Sherman]

If I'm not mistaken, I've played two of them. And I liked/like them a LOT. Like 103s in BBb. Great sound and power, lots of character, and the pitch is very, very manageable.

J.c.S.