Marzan tuba

[Dan Schultz]

I could not pass up buying a Marzan slanted rotary valve today.
CCC

Awesome! I've had a couple of dozen slant-rotor horns over the last twenty years but failed to keep one for myself. There were no serial numbers on the Marzan rotary horns but if it's one I've seen or rebuilt... it will have a date code stamped into the paddle bar along with my initials.

[EdFirth]

Connie Weldon helped me rescue that silver 4P 1R detachable bell Marzan from the University of Miami where she was a mucky muck and the horn was languishing in Methods class. She called the tuba instructor Steve Johns or John Stevens, I always get that confused, and set up the deal.She had sold it to Don Mopsick when she decided to stop playing...Don was working at a place called the Levee in Ft. Meyers, and he then had to stop playing tuba, although he was able to continue on bass fiddle, with the stipulation that he'd sell it back to her if he ever sold it. I came onto that band as Don's replacement and played it at that time and it was pretty incredible but he honored his promise to Connie and sold it back to her. So about seven years later I called her out oh the blue and she told me to come on down with something to trade. The Marzan, by this time was toast.Upright bell was flowered, lots of dents ,and the fifth valve and corresponding tube circut was in a brown lunch bag. I swapped a Conn 2J for it and took it to Benard Voeller in Tampa and he rebuilt it. I used it alot. It recorded incredibly well and was Very well in tune with itself but for whatever dumb reason I sold it and started in with my silver King 2341.A guy in Orlando bought it and I lost track of it. But at least we got it out of methods class and back in the hands of a pro. That's it, Ed