sorta off topic,
but check out this old Martin:
https://reverb.com/item/10569885-martin-band-tuba-1919

found what I was looking for.
The shape of this bell looks really similar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpmSyLtYKIo

The tuba in the pic screams Martin to me as well. There was a guy in Chicago (?) some years back selling what was a big Martin tuba body with a Meinl-Weston rotor valve set. I wanted to find a picture of that just to compare the shape of the bell and bows. I have the feeling the overall shape of tha...

bort2.0 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 1:28 pm Anyone want to un-scare me from the .687 bore of the 2341? Am I going to overblow it? Or is the smaller bore less of an issue with the piston horns, given the shorter leadpipe?

The only real answer to that is to locate one and go play it.

Ok, so this hasn't been "my world" in many years, if ever... But I'm wondering what might be a reasonable short-ish-list of large BBb tuba options, with these parameters: * 4 front-action pistons * One-piece upright bell * Bigger (to much bigger) than 4/4 * Made in America (ok -- Europe i...

in the past year, I've barely let me play my own tuba.

... If some disgusting slob drools and stinks his way over to my tuba and splutters and sneezes as he asks me to try my tuba, hell no. Go away. If the cute tuba gal with beautiful hair, who smells like petunias, smiles and asks to play my tuba and my mouthpiece, then yeah, sure! .... And which one ...

Lots of tuba models missing from the website. The only ones listed are 30H, 28H, and 30G.

bummer, but not like I was in the market.

I don't supposed some other manufacturer's YBB-105 copy (or even an actual YBB-105) piston could be made to work?

Would just seem like possibly less work.

https://www.melton-meinl-weston.com/art ... massacote/

The accompanying question was Bat? Is that a Walter Nirschl 5/4 or (same size/shape/specs) Besson 995 ? I'm not the best at identifying models of tubas from 2D pictures/videos. cjk is, though. off on a tangent: I've always played that on C (awkward on F, and NOT amazingly-easy on E-flat) With my ne...

amusing:

Gronitz Tubas:
Played by leading players as
...
(list of people who no longer play Gronitz tubas)

http://forums.chisham.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=31564

There was a guy on tubenet who posted as PolkaNoble who had one. According to his signature at the link above, his name was Max Tunnell.

Another video containing the model in question.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mONpTyhWF70

bort2.0 wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 1:43 pm

cjk wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 11:54 am This is the best 20J I have never played.

Doesn't have to be that way... Come on up.

It's a couple of days away from June, and it's 55° with not a cloud in the sky.

55 degrees is cold!! I might have to wear pants!

This is the best 20J I have never played.

the elephant wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 8:01 am

I totally dig the elephant on the bell!!!

Sorry to bugger up bloke's thread.

https://photos.smugmug.com/RuskRemover/n-XwCrHd/i-ZhpWHVq/2/32b8f072/X5/i-ZhpWHVq-X5.jpg What would be hilarious is if the "ELKHORN" was buffed off and re-engraved in the same font as "ELEPHANT". Or maybe just change "ELKHORN" to "ELEHORN". Yeah, I know what ...

Wade, I am certainly excited for you that you got your Holton all put back together even if some if it may need some rework later. It's super to see it looking like a tuba again.