Converting Besson euph receiver from medium to bass trombone

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Converting Besson euph receiver from medium to bass trombone

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Considering having this done. Any thoughts on it?

Not sure how familiar my repair guy is with swapping these out; is there a go-to replacement receiver to use?


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I predict that the replacement receiver would be larger on the inside than the other one.
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The things you learn on TubaForum, golly!
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Has can be seen here, receiver geometry optimization has been explored for well over a century by some of our greatest minds. Here is one of them working with these mysteries via the application of the Reflexive Axiom.
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