Willson 3400RZ

[bort2.0]

Rotary Willson 3400 at Dillon Music. Ooooohhhh

https://www.dillonmusic.com/used-willso ... a-sn-1029/

[Three Valves]

[bort2.0]

Is someone here buys this, I'd recommend sending the valves to Martin Wilk to have him un-Rotax them and make them more like regular rotary valves.

I did that with my 3050RZ, and it made a world of difference. If I had the whole tuba in Martin's hands... I would have asked him to gut and replace the linkages. They are very fussy and not much fun to deal with.

[Wu299]

Off topic, but relevant – bort, could you please disclose how much did the conversion cost? Not that I'm thinking about it. Just curious.

EDIT: Just noticed the tuba has four valves. Interesting, I didn't even know they made bass tubas with 4 valves.

[bort2.0]

I think it was $80 per valve. So with shipping, it was $450.

[jtm]

It looks so empty. I'm not used to that.

[bort2.0]

Its the Switzerland Star model

[bloke]

The Kurath people really make some fine instruments.
I've owned one of the rotary bass tubas...It had a lot of RZzmatazz.

[bort2.0]

Oh, I loved that damn rotary 3050. But the valve block was a few inches too high, and needed major surgery to fix the ergonomic issues. Could have been done... And maybe I should have done it ... But I bailed on it.

Kind of wish it had worked out, because it played great (and huge!). Build.quality and silver plating were the BEST!

[marccromme]

Really nice instruments, but it would benefit from a 5th valve , IMHO

[LeMark]

$7900 is a lot of money to pay for a horn that can't play a Low F in tune