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Great playing, @Doc!


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Thank you @Doc for the cool sounding bass lines. Keep doing that voodoo that you do so well!!! Stay safe and healthy my friend.
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tubadude wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 12:34 pm Thank you @Doc for the cool sounding bass lines. Keep doing that voodoo that you do so well!!! Stay safe and healthy my friend.
Thank you, sir! You do the same.
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I can't let Doc have all the fun!

Here's some more helicon shenanigans:
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Kirley wrote: ↑Wed Mar 31, 2021 10:17 pm I can't let Doc have all the fun!

Here's some more helicon shenanigans:
Heck yeah! And at least you’re getting to play live with people!
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Me and my 1905 BBb York
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That's a beautiful horn. Nice to see another northern grainbelt member! :tuba:
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ronr wrote: ↑Fri Apr 02, 2021 9:37 pm [*]Image

Me and my 1905 BBb York
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Yeah Doc!!!!

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Another blasmusik play-along video, but this time featuring the Wessex Eb Helicon. I had some kind of audio lag issue in the second video that I couldn’t fix to my satisfaction. I decided to let it ride and work on it once I get situated in my new spot. either way, you can get an idea of how it sounds with this type of music.

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The hills are alive...

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Three Valves wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 8:50 am The hills are alive...

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And I thought it was just gas...
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Bump. This thread has been inactive for more than a year.

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Goooood morning, here is a bit of my stuff:



I only ceep the Tenor and the Cerveny BBb Helikon.
The rest was VERY uncomfortable to play and need a lot of time to play in tune. Need a lot of alternative fingerings.

And this very good sounding Cerveny BBb Helikon.
Needs a new valve section...



Enjoy 😊🎶🎵
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Really cool. And we’ll played I might add.

Yeah, it doesn’t surprise me that the Cerveny needs a valve job. This is what, a 1920’s model? After a 100 years it has EARNED a valve job!
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This is a remarkably nice-playing 4+1 C helicon, made from 1920's Buescher parts, and patterned after Al Jaffe's (Preservation Hall founder) 4-valve B-flat Buescher helicon.

I used it (during a time when it was my ONLY contrabass tuba) to play everything from hip-hop to Walter Hartley to Stravinsky.

This was a picture that Mrs. bloke took of the TV screen when a Hallmark Channel movie was airing - in which I used it as a prop.
(I actually pre-recorded the music that we played with my Besson E-flat.)
oh yeah...I made a fortune (NOT) :eyes: off that gig; c. $150 to record a pair of public domain tunes and $500 for the day shoot.
Oh well, the food truck was decent, and they let the band eat the "stars" food, rather than the "extras" food.

This was only a few days prior to me shipping it off to its new owner in Oregon, so it was all nice, clean, and shiny.

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Here's a picture of it unencumbered by my formerly-way-to-large self:
(a few minutes prior to it disappearing into its shipping carton)

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pjv wrote: ↑Mon Apr 25, 2022 2:40 pm Really cool. And we’ll played I might add.

Yeah, it doesn’t surprise me that the Cerveny needs a valve job. This is what, a 1920’s model? After a 100 years it has EARNED a valve job!
You are right. The Valves are not tight anymore. This Instrument will get a new 4 Valve section.

I really like it as it is, but it deserve a wellness week in the repairshop 😎
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