I’ve got a lead on a 4v Martin Medium, but getting it to Minneapolis, hmm. Also, who knows if it will work out.

Probably one of my more helpful posts.

Could it be a 32K? Do you have the serial #?

1241 BBb. Sending you a PM.

Fix! These are great sousaphones.

I owned one which was school surplus. The thing to watch out for if buying a neck is to buy the old-style King neck instead of the new-style King neck. They're both L-shaped, but the old one has the mouthpiece receiver on the short end of the L and the new one has ...

Here’s my old one with the same low-slung valve section:
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Neat! How did it play?


Not exceptionally well. It was fun, but it was a tuba I kept at my folks' house in KY to play at the brass band festival when I come back in town over the summer (https://gabbf.org/). It was a tiny Eb ...

Here’s my old one with the same low-slung valve section:

Timtamtuba wrote: Wed Jun 17, 2026 3:57 pm Bell looks so tiny, what is that 13-14 inches? If I was an Eb kinda guy id probably buy it.

I think these had a 15” bell. Pic kinda skews it making it look smaller.

Comes with a spare rotor to add to make it a 5 valver. I owned an Eb like this that was marked Heinel but was actually made by Schuster in Markneukirchen. I wonder if this one is also a Schuster horn. Nickel-silver bell bead and the overall shape/size and design elements make me think yes.

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LeMark in your neck of the woods, yeah?

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If this is what I think it is, it's a tiny little Austrian tuba that takes a small shank trombone mouthpiece. I've come across one or two of them before.

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Having divested myself from my 15" bell 1968 Besson Eb (that I bought in December 2024 and have played in public... once?), I'm now left with my 1975 (large shank) New Standard euph and '60s 3v comp. baritone. The euph plays great, brighter than modern instruments and with that sharp high Eb, but I ...

My bass experience is limited to getting 2nd place in a high school talent show with my rock band, so I'll defer to others' expertise.

To me, that looks like a Pan-American / student model of Conn.

Serial points to 1918-1919, pretty cool!

I do repair work on the side, as many folks here know. I will actually be traveling through PA next Sunday, and I will make a stop in Reading later this summer. If you want, I can grab this on ...

Played one of his tubas today and am picking up another one next week! There really aren't many of the old masters around anymore.

Does the "P" stand for Prodigal?

I'm thinking the Edgware plant closed around the turn of the 21st century, and production was moved to another English town for a very short time until Buffet bought the name and production was shifted to B&S (with B&S tooling). (They had been making the really large Meinl-Weston euphoniums ...

Good evening. I'm on the lookout for a Conn Eb sousaphone bell to fit a 1926 28k. The sousa I picked up is brass but I wouldn't thumb my nose at silver. I think they were typically either 23" or 24" diameter and the male bell tenon was 6".

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