Looks similar to mine- if so, the bore is probably 0.787". Should be a great player when properly repaired, but they'd have to drop the price to make it feasible.

@Ant , I hope you have as much fun with it as I did.

Might be interesting to see Cwm Rhondda, the place that gave its name to the famous hymn tune. I'm pretty sure that's pronounced "Koom Rhontha".

That BBb Marzan is the one I'm selling:

https://www.tubaforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=11514

and it can be yours! Main reason I'm selling it is because I'm getting older, and it's not getting any lighter. Oh, and the gig bag is a Cronkhite.


I've been admiring it. I had one and do miss it. But I ...

Sold! Wonder if anyone on here is the new owner?

thought I'd share this- the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Concert Choir, under conductor Christian Schumann, performing "Hymn to the Fallen":



Well done!

That BBb Marzan is the one I'm selling:

https://www.tubaforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=11514

and it can be yours! Main reason I'm selling it is because I'm getting older, and it's not getting any lighter. Oh, and the gig bag is a Cronkhite.

That might be the Marzan design- it sure looks like the MTS is up top.

I'd say a big patch- maybe to reinforce an area badly damaged by a "young scholar" as @bloke would say.

https://www.baltimorebrasscompany.com/p ... -tuba.aspx

All I know of its history is it once belonged to a Chicagoland band director.

no name on it- maybe the bell was replaced at some point. Wrapped something like an Alex:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/135725019949?mkevt=1&mkpid=2&emsid=e90001.m164960.l179212&plmtId=700009&mesgId=3037&mkcid=8&ch=osgood&bu=43212601574&trkId=cbfaa18e-001d-370d-9f87-c3358a5d80f5&cnvId=700003&recoId ...

Hindemith Symphony in B-flat.

James Barnes wrote nine symphonies, and I believe that they are all for wind band.


My to-do list just got longer.


On the topic of "serious" works by major composers written originally for band (and not transcribed from orchestra), Suite Francaise by ...

That deMeij symphony is a great piece, and was a lot of fun to play. It's one of two symphonies I know of that the composer scored for concert band- the other being James Barnes' third, which I've also played. Anyone know of any others?


Hindemith Symphony in B-flat.

James Barnes wrote nine ...

That deMeij symphony is a great piece, and was a lot of fun to play. It's one of two symphonies I know of that the composer scored for concert band- the other being James Barnes' third, which I've also played. Anyone know of any others?

humBell wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 12:20 pm Bombardon is a seriously under used term these days...

ISTR Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, played the Bombardon.

Well, I bought @MikeS 's small-shank Shallowberger and it fits this little Lehnert Eb nicely- the shank goes into the receiver a bit more than halfway.

And I had to download an Eb fingering chart. Feels like grade school again..............

But it works. Nice job, @bloke .

I'm too ignorant to be able to answer the question about the Lord of the Rings Symphony, but it well could be from that. There's a B flat treble clef part and a C string base octave bass clef tuba part. Of course, I'm reading off the latter.

If it's the last part of this, at 30:05, it is indeed ...

I've got some "Jedi"...blah-blah band (not arrangement, but) original-keys transcription of some movie music (that's probably the note-y-ist piece in the folder...lots of runs of notes with double flags, etc...), along with some other John Williams transcriptions, a set of J.P. Sousa pieces (four ...

Easter service. We played the Gregor "Hosanna Anthem" arranged by Craig Garner, and the Marcello "Psalm 19 (The Heavens Declare the Glory of God)" arranged by Michael Allen. And we used the John Rutter brass/organ arrangement of the Easter Hymn that bloke introduced us to some years ago, which I've ...

Any video?