York-aholic wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 10:09 pm That is a gorgeous York. I’m pretty sure it’s a model 730.

Right you are!

Think the green paint is original or a restoration?
(asking for a friend)

Perhaps one performs tonal works on this helicon with a giant floor-mounted hand and dipping the bell into it when required.

Looks like it was engraved with a spork...

I dropped out of the best concert band in town because there was no way for me to get away from the timpani in the rehearsal room. Even with ear plugs, my ears were ringing, and it wasn't worth it to stay. I made a point once of putting a few quarters on the timpani head under the music stand (the ...

Lisk’s bond has been set to $15,000

How many gigs will he have to play to pay that off!?

The "P17126" serial number would put it at 1920, according to the Loyalist.

Or not.

Pauvog1 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 23, 2025 9:54 am Cb? But does it come in silver?

Better than that, it's silver that was PLATED brass!

See if it does the same thing when mounted on someone else's sousaphone.
If it doesn't, swap bells!

Brass musicians always argue over whose is longer!

Here's the bowed slide from Horn-u-copia for comparison:

These puppies wail!

I hate to bring this up, but the problem is not with the instrument.
The problem lies with the overtone series, compounded by the temperament in use.
Equal temperament is only equally out-of-tune.

https://www.kylegann.com/tuning.html

My Mantia double-belled baritone came with double backed "W" tuning slides.
With them installed it plays at A=435.
I had to have new ones made without the doubling back to get it to A=440.

MiBrassFS wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2024 10:44 am Reading the title, I thought this was going to about something COMPLETELY different…

A WBA basketball team!?

Was someone looking for a flat tuba?

arpthark wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2024 9:28 am

I suspect that the actual SN ="120904", putting it in 1921-1931.
50 MoH.

Mark wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2024 12:33 pm That is not a tuba. According to the link you posted it is a RCA Victor French Horn.

Oh, those French.
They have a different word for everything!