The last Eb I played (it's not mine, but I played it for 6 months) was a PT-22. It was the best Eb I have ever played.

It looks like I may be going in a bit of a different direction with the bell, but I won't know until some time next week.

My high school band played a Top Gun medley when I was in 8th grade (we were a K-12 building and the high school band needed the 8th graders to have enough kids) back in 1995. They might still have it, but I don't know if they would sell it

Lee Stofer knows alot about these horns and actually found a King bell for one awhile back.He may be able to give you some leads. Best, Ed


Thank you.

Fortunately, I have plenty of time before I need a bell. There isn't a whole lot of repair work per se to do (really only a large dent in the ...

York-aholic wrote: Thu Dec 21, 2023 9:53 am Is that the Monster BBb rotary?

What is the diameter supposed to be? What is the collar id?

Yes, it is. The collar is 7⅛". I had to get the tenon back to round, but it is 7⅛".

I am currently working on restoring an old King 1291. I have, or can get, everything but the bell. It's an oddball size and I am really trying to avoid modifying it to accept a Conn bell. If anyone can help out or point me in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it.

...it seems to me that Music is the hiding place for more frauds than any other field.

Again, change my mind. :facepalm2:



Higher education.

And you may call me Maestro!! :tuba:


Particularly the Ph.Ds in education who have never taught anything lower than college trying to tell ...

I have one of those, but a bit later than that one. It's life before me was as an art prop for the high school my mother taught at, so it was rough. It was a present for me, so I don't know how bad it was before I got it, but it didn't have a receiver. I had to get a whole new leadpipe and receiver ...

IIRC, Matt Walters played a pivotal role in the design of the Conn 52J (until they disregarded his wisdom :wall: ), which I’m sure uses the same bell as the new 2341, so he likely would have the definitive answer.



I believe it was the other way around. They used the bell from the Monster Eb ...

I had the opportunity to play it last January. I had just spent a good deal of time on an Eastman 534 play testing for a new, larger mouthpiece. I played the Rudy after that. Aside from having to sit up as tall as I could to play it (I'm only 5'6"), the top end of it was fantastic. I could get the 4 ...

I have a Meinlschmidt rotor that got shipped out Monday. It has spent the last 24 hours "In transit" at the Munich Airport. I hope they don't manage to lose that - I've waited two months and paid more money than I could justify to the wife for it. At least it is for my own instrument.

I play mine like a bass tuba half the time, so I just pull the 4th valve slides and have fun (I even used it as a contrabass in a parade once when out tuba player didn'tshow up). I definitely think it is an underrated horn, but I also see why it's not as well liked.

It is definitely. 536. I used to own one. I once tried to put my outer slide over that of a Bach 42B inner slide and it would go. I tried to use mine in concert band in college (the one for any warm body that walked in), but was constantly overpowered (I was usually the only bass in a band of about ...

"getting real (which - I guess - means "risking offense")...
Something that I remember from my transition period from several daily hours of "classical" guitar practice to several daily hours of tuba practice...
When I did my first public performance of a "tuba solo" (freshman - age 17, in front of ...

I haven't heard a tornistertuba played so well. On my phone (at least) the bass part almost sounded like a bass trombone. The other parts were fantastic.

Hercules makes two different kinds, though I have never had a tablet to use for music.

bloke wrote: Fri Dec 25, 2020 8:31 am Do any B-flat players pull slides...??

Once I get done modifying and rebuilding by 1241, I probably will need to down in the pedal register (adding a fifth valve).

They may have copied the basic design of a J865, but it isn't one. The fifth valve, while dependent, is actuated by a trigger, not by the thumb pushing against a post on the rotor itself.

Years ago, I was asked to move from euphonium (which I only played for a year agter being asked to move to it after five years as a trumpet player) to tuba. I can say that a tuba is not just a large baritone (I also play bass trombone). What is expected as a tuba (bass line, foundation, whatever you ...

I play a BBb, so 1-2-3-4 and hope that I have it in tune.

At some point, I will add a 5th valve to mine, so that should help a bit.