Largest and smallest tubas -- pics!

Leland · Post by **Leland** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 9:31 pm

Well, technically, can these be considered "tubas" if they can't be played?

That cloud one really has "tuba" as part of its terminology. Check it out on its original page --
http://www.astrosurf.org/lombry/meteo-n ... mages5.htm

Just a couple of the things I found by typing "tuba.jpg" into Google and clicking "Images"...

Dylan King · Post by **Dylan King** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 6:19 pm

Small and large work so well together.

daktx2 · Post by **daktx2** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:56 pm

KarlMarx · Post by **KarlMarx** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:23 pm

bloke wrote:Hey! I always thought that I...Oh, I see... "tubas" not tuba "players"...

...Oh, OK. Whatever. I guess I need to get these hamburgers down to...I mean...I need to go practice.

(sorry!)

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Dear Bloke

If you go on expanding your personal business that way, you wont be able to play your Buescher life belt for long.

As you have kids one may deduce, that your wife is kind of an explorer type in the more geographical sense.

Carolus Marximus Impossiblimus

josh wagner · Post by **josh wagner** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:33 am

www.stephan-froleyks.de/.../ geschweiftetuba.html

i find this one rather weird looking any one have a clue what those cones are for??[/url]

Joe Baker · Post by **Joe Baker** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:49 am

I think this is the guy who hooks up other "bells" in place of valve tuning slides, so when he activates a valve the sound comes out a different pitch from a different place on stage.
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Joe Baker, who would like to see this -- and yet can't imagine going very far out of his way to do so!

ThomasDodd · Post by **ThomasDodd** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:50 am

josh wagner wrote:www.stephan-froleyks.de/.../ geschweiftetuba.html

busted link...

i find this one rather weird looking any one have a clue what those cones are for??

Not a clue...

tubeast · Post by **tubeast** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:51 am

This seems to consist of garden hoses with "bells" made of cardboard or PVC-carpet, attached to some of the hornÂ´s valve slides. Will probably sound freakish as loved by contemporary composers who think existing instruments just donÂ´t sound right.

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:32 pm

ThomasDodd wrote:

Not a clue...

Philistine. It's performance art. If you have to have it explained, you are not worthy. Thus, I refuse to explain it to you.

Rick "who thinks the photography is the best part of this particular 'art'" Denney

MaryAnn · Post by **MaryAnn** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:42 pm

I saw a more comedy-oriented performance of this kind of thing with a horn player....he ran tubing out to funnels from his valve slides, and had people stand holding the funnels. It was a pretty funny act, one of those things done at a horn workshop where everybody knows each other and is having fun yukking it up.

MA, who believes no beer was involved "yet"

dmmorris · Post by **dmmorris** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 1:46 pm

Michael Vogt used a similar approach leading tubes from his valve slides to various sized buckets of water. If I was doing it, I might consider other liquids...different viscosities yeilding different bubble/gurgle sounds......in a large stereo sound-stage could sound very amusing. And you might want to take a nip outa the beer bucket on ocasion.

jacobg · Post by **jacobg** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 2:11 pm

jacobg · Post by **jacobg** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 2:17 pm

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Rick F · Post by **Rick F** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 2:23 pm

Cool pic posted by Jacobg. Would this be considered a 'pocket piggy'?

ThomasDodd · Post by **ThomasDodd** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 2:41 pm

jacobg wrote:[/img]

Anyone got the diminsions on this? There's no real size reference (other than the mouthpiece)

Looks about the size of a baritone?

Wonder how it plays...

jacobg · Post by **jacobg** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 2:50 pm

from
http://www.rugs-n-relics.com/brass-phil ... -Tuba.html

This is a beautiful and rare Cervany "Tornister" Tuba. Tornister means "Rucksack" or "Backpack". It is probably the smallest true tuba ever made - measuring 19 inches tall with an 8 inch bell. Despite its petite size, it plays clearly and hits the lower register with ease. Note the mouthpiece leadpipe come off the right side of the tuba- opposite the bell side. It originally played in high Bb, but the tuning slide has been modified by Dick Hansen of Brimfield MA to play in modern Bb. This configuration of tuba was also made as a Tornister Baritone. Both were probably used by military bands in the field - where carting a full size tuba would have been difficult.

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 4:31 pm

Rick F wrote:Cool pic posted by Jacobg. Would this be considered a 'pocket piggy'?

I believe it could only have been considered a "pocket piggy," if one has one helluva pocket. It IS really small.

Dean E · Post by **Dean E** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 4:54 pm

This is my nomination for most massive. It is, I believe, a J.W. Pepper [edit: Conn, not J.W. Pepper] raincatcher belonging [edit: lent] to the Sousa Band. One of the musicians is William Herb [edit: and the other is "Big" Jack Richardson]. The photo is probably from 1924-29.

Mikelynch · Post by **Mikelynch** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:23 pm

Dean E.

Without trying to resolve the unanswered question of whther J.W. Pepper really made the first sousaphone, or ever made one used in the Sousa Band, it's probably worth noting the horn in the photo is definitely a Conn. I'll attach (hopefully), a photo of the Sousa Band section from 1923, where "Big" Jack Richardson is again pictured with what is almost certainly the same instrument. At this point in time, all the raincatchers in the band were Conns, and were owned by Conn, rather than by the players or the band.

These giant Conn raincatchers put out a massive sound, particularly in the low register (makes a grown 20J run, hide and call for its momma...)

Mike Lynch

BTW, having trouble posting the photo. Perhaps the difference is that I have switched to MAC (or perhaps it's pure operator error...). Pointers, anyone?

Dylan King · Post by **Dylan King** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:31 pm

Quick! Somebody toss me one of those triple tubas. I'm lifting for the world record.

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