This Tuba Tuesday the Museum features a very large, four rotary valve, BBb tuba by the German-Austrian maker Bohland & Fuchs, shown below.
This tuba is 42 inches high, has a bell diameter of 21.5 inches, and a valve bore of .830 inch, or 21.2 mm. The 21.5” bell diameter is the second largest of all the upright bell, rotary valve tubas in the collection.
Bohland & Fuchs was founded in 1870 in the town of Graslitz in Bohemia. By 1925 it had 500 workers, making it the largest brass instrument maker in Europe.
Graslitz was controlled by the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the end of
WW I, in 1918. In 1945 it became part of Czechoslovakia and its name changed to Kraslice, which is what it is still called today.
Also in 1945, Bohland & Fuchs was “nationalized” by the Czechoslovakian government and ceased to exist as an independent maker.
https://simonettitubacollection.com/ins ... 1930-1940/
