Green Bay: Vintage Holton

[hrender]

https://reverb.com/item/40274798-vintag ... e-and-case

[matt g]

@bloke, is this the same bugle you used or close to it?

[bloke]

@bloke, is this the same bugle you used or close to it?

That's an E-flat...
They are more common, and the tuning characteristics (in my experience, having tooted on a few front-action and top-action versions) is somewhat curious...as are the tuning characteristics of most old "monster" E-flat tubas.
(In my experience, it took the English to figure out how to get bigger E-flat tubas to play well-enough in-tune to offer relative care-free playing.)
Also, that's a few decades older than the (BB-flat) instrument I reconfig'ed.


Sam Gnagey might want that bell - for one of his King C things...and someone repairing/restoring a 345 might like to have some of those brace socket-flanges. If (??) that's a 19" bell, someone might want that case for brass band run-outs/road-trips - if their 3+1 comp E-flat fits into it.

[ParLawGod]

My neck of the woods!

[Tubajug]

The engraving looks to be deeper and crisper (aka, less buffed off) than the engraving on the Holton bell I've got on my King BBb.