Custom Conn CC tuba

[dmmorris]

The title of the thread is..........

[chhite]

Joe's in Williamsburg playing at Busch Gardens and working at a music store in Toano while not at the park. I've seen and played this horn in most of its stages, from the original Eb, which played pretty well, to the tacked-up prototype version, and Matt has done an incredible job. It was great back then and I'm sure that the finished product is a gem. Mad Dog, enjoy the horn. BTW, which horn are you going to get rid of?

Where is he playing at Busch Gardens? I usually get there a few times a year and would love to check it out.

Last year he was in Italy, but I'm not sure he's there again. Ask any of the brass musicians and they'll know.

[Philip Jensen]

After he posted those pictures, he set to work cleaning and tweaking my old King BBb horn. I picked it up last Thursday and Matt made the horn sound 10 times better than it had.

Matt and I spent a little time on Wed. testing out various Bb horns as my teacher has said I was ready for a better horn. I also play Eb and my wife has agreed that next year I can get a new tuba. Well the question has been a "new" Bb or Eb? Well I now know that it will be an Eb. My tweaked King, now plays better than the others I had tried (Miraphones 191 and 186 - unfortunately no 1291s to test - I've loved them in the past). Really opened it up. There were some suspicious solder blobs where the lead pipe enters the valve cluster that Matt ultimately found were hiding some problems.

Matt was out the door for vacation a soon as I came to pick up the horn - after going over what he had done and getting my comments after testing it.

Ken wrote

speaking of tweaking, if one were to wish to have their horn "tweaked", would an appointment be needed or could you just show up in the morning and leave your horn there for the day(or two, whatever it takes). I was thinking of going down for some of this world famed tweaking and just wanted to know what I should do.

Ideally make an appointment well in advance. I set mine up in early July for the 18th of Aug, and brought the horn in a day early. Even this may not be early enough, unless you are willing to leave the horn for several days/weeks

[porkchopsisgood]

JOE!!!!

I had no idea THAT was what the horn was going to end up like....DAMN...

I want to head to Dillon's with you when you check it out....let's work it out.

Allen