Today is not only Good Friday, but it's also customer-owned Holton 6/4 Tuba Restoration Day !!!

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Today is not only Good Friday, but it's also customer-owned Holton 6/4 Tuba Restoration Day !!!

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The old bell in the picture is an original Holton model 345 bell with a bunch of un-artfully brazed crack repairs, and the two others are virtual duplicates that are brand new and ready to install on customer-owned tubas (which either featured very distressed original bells or detachable recording bells which those customers were not particularly interested in using). These probably fit some other 6/4 tubas as well, but probably not all.
These are not Chinese bells. These were made in Germany, are flawless, robust appropriately thick-walled), and un-engraved. They were ordered with their tails (small ends) untrimmed, but at the same height as the Holton, the diameter is virtually identical.
We're willing to order these for you, but the terms are pay in advance, don't call and ask about them too often, and pick them up here - because we don't want them damaged in domestic shipping and nor do we believe that you would choose to pay the confiscatory domestic shipping cost (which would actually be more than the overseas shipping cost).

...I could have bought one more for the Holton model 345 that I've been trying to bring to the finish line, but its own bell is great.


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Re: Today is not only Good Friday, but it's also customer-owned Holton 6/4 Tuba Restoration Day !!!

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Eyeball (such that it is…) tape measure sure says they look a lot alike!
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