St. Louis CL: Buescher Eb Helicon

[edsel585960]

Anyone in the area that wants to pick this up for me?

Ditto!

[bigtubby]

Anyone in the area that wants to pick this up for me?

Does the CL one have the small bell you were looking for a while back? At first I thought it was like mine but I guess that by 16 years later they must have redesigned them.

Are you looking for someone to pick it up and then ship to you? I have a cousin in Effingham who might be interested in helping, would you like me to contact her for you?

[bigtubby]

The one I have here has a 17" bell. The ad is gone, but I think it said this one had a bigger bell. It would be interesting to get all the different Buescher Eb helis together to compare them. Seems like they made quite a few versions with significant differences over the years.

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That was a fairly serious redesign - aside from the 19" bell and the curved brace between the bell stack and the second branch, mine has the MTS before the valve block while the two pictured here have it after. I'm weird about tubing bends and love the way the MTS tubing takes a perfectly concentric 180 degree bend around the first valve circuit.

Interesting old horns.

[roweenie]

Buescher must have been an interesting company. Their stuff seems to have evolved a bit more than some of the other companies active during their time. They made some nice stuff.

Yes, I agree. They were innovative, to say the least, in new and unique designs for their brasses. However, their "bread and butter" was in their line of saxophones, and even here, they were innovative (snap-in resonators and pads, drawn tone holes, forked low E flat fingering, etc.).

I've always felt their tubas were somewhat underrated, FWIW.

[opus37]

I have a Holton for sale that is cheaper and in better shape. Silver with a 20" bell.