0 valve helicon (Portugal)

[donn]

Seller indicates that it's old, probably 50 years. I'd guess he might be off by a factor of 2. I've sure never seen anything like it. Seems rather lightly used. Priced at the princely sum of €40 - and he's willing to negotiate, but probably not to ship. In case you guys are getting hot over this, just forget it!

I wonder how far you could get your arm into its bell while playing, to do the horn thing for a little more chromaticity.

[the elephant]

link?

[Mary Ann]

It's a helicobugle, I guess. Maybe a big artificial hand on a wand that could be inserted into the bell?
Or, maybe it's a circular, metal Alphorn.

[donn]

link?

Tuba antiga de banda filarmónica

[arpthark]

If my Spanish to Portuguese cognates are to be trusted, once I press the “Aceito” pop-up, will I be eligible for free valve oil?

[marccromme]

Great! I will never again have problems with un-clean fingering of fast passages!

[windshieldbug]

Perhaps one performs tonal works on this helicon with a giant floor-mounted hand and dipping the bell into it when required.

[donn]

If my Spanish to Portuguese cognates are to be trusted, once I press the “Aceito” pop-up, will I be eligible for free valve oil?

The premise apparently proved wrong. Azeite is oil in Portuguese -- olive oil (olives are azeitonas - these words are both from Arabic roots, but the tree is oliveira.) Too lazy to look it up, but I'm fairly sure valve oil will be óleo, which I think they use in general the same as we do, except for olive oil which as you may imagine is a major thing. Olive trees everywhere, often of ages measured in centuries though not greatly larger for it thanks to very assertive pruning.

"Aceito" means "I accept". All letters are pronounced, so the "eit" in these words is just like our "eight" (but the "o" at the end is more like "oo", and is more unstressed than it would be in Spanish, as European Portuguese is, like English but unlike Spanish, "stress timed.") European sites are pretty fastidious about the cookie policy acceptance thing.