This Tuba Tuesday the Museum presents a Reynolds silver 4 piston EE flat sousaphone with floral engravings.
From Horn-U-Copia: “ In 1936, Foster A. Reynolds, established the Reynolds Band Instrument Company. At about the same time that Foster Reynolds founded the F.A. Reynolds Co., he also established the Ohio Band Instrument Company. Producing instruments in the same factory as F.A. Reynolds horns, Ohio Band exclusively sold to dealers in the school band market, competing directly with H.N. Whites Cleveland Band and American Standard divisions. The Regent was Ohio Bands primary instrument line; Ohio Band also made the Roth Band Instruments line for the Scherl & Roth company in Cleveland. In addition to the Regent and Roth brands, Ohio Band produced instruments under the Paramount brand. Little is known about these horns.”
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Tuba Tuesday: Reynolds, EE flat sousaphone, 4 piston, c.1941
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Tuba Tuesday: Reynolds, EE flat sousaphone, 4 piston, c.1941
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Re: Tuba Tuesday: Reynolds, EE flat sousaphone, 4 piston, c.1941
Great looking horn.
Some old Yorks, Martins, and perhaps a King rotary valved CC
Re: Tuba Tuesday: Reynolds, EE flat sousaphone, 4 piston, c.1941
By normal naming conventions, isn't that an "E flat" sousaphone? "EE flat" would be an octave lower, no?
(cuz I got excited for a minute before I saw the image...)
(cuz I got excited for a minute before I saw the image...)
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Re: Tuba Tuesday: Reynolds, EE flat sousaphone, 4 piston, c.1941
I am just the messenger who quotes the Museum....
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Re: Tuba Tuesday: Reynolds, EE flat sousaphone, 4 piston, c.1941
That's a very unique 4th valve wrap, coming half way up the shoulder.
It's cool to see another full-circle Eb, besides King.
It's cool to see another full-circle Eb, besides King.
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Re: Tuba Tuesday: Reynolds, EE flat sousaphone, 4 piston, c.1941
Normal conventions are not always technically accurate descriptions.
Historically (back to the time of this instrument's manufacture and considerably earlier, in the USA), "EE flat" apparently referred to "big and fat" and "E flat" referred to "NOT so big and fat"...
...at least, according to many old catalogs and advertisements, of which I've viewed many scans.
I believe (??) that the 16-foot CC (in the Helmholtz notation) barely makes the double-capital-letter designation, yes?
To hell with this academic crap. I want that damn sousaphone !!!
Historically (back to the time of this instrument's manufacture and considerably earlier, in the USA), "EE flat" apparently referred to "big and fat" and "E flat" referred to "NOT so big and fat"...
...at least, according to many old catalogs and advertisements, of which I've viewed many scans.
I believe (??) that the 16-foot CC (in the Helmholtz notation) barely makes the double-capital-letter designation, yes?
To hell with this academic crap. I want that damn sousaphone !!!