Tuba Tuesday: Buescher, Jumbo, BB flat sousaphone, 3 piston, 1926

[bisontuba]

This Tuba Tuesday the Museum features a Buescher, Jumbo, BB flat sousaphone, 3 piston, 1926.

Bell is 30” and the bore is .770.

“THE / BUESCHER / ELKHART / IND / USA” on small end of bell. Floral engraving around identification marks.



https://simonettitubacollection.com/ins ... ousaphone/

[humBell]

(Where' is the drooling emoji? ah... there it's!)

italicised bold um...

(Somehow very disappointed emojis are not altered appropriately by formatting tags, and here i thought the underline would artistically fill in the impression of a puddle accumulating. Such is my disappointment i felt the need to explain it)

Someone here marches with one of these and that's pretty hard to top...

[bort2.0]

Floral engraving around identification marks.

Would have been nice to see!

[Username]

This Tuba Tuesday the Museum features a Buescher, Jumbo, BB flat sousaphone, 3 piston, 1926.

Bell is 30” and the bore is .770.

“THE / BUESCHER / ELKHART / IND / USA” on small end of bell. Floral engraving around identification marks.



https://simonettitubacollection.com/ins ... ousaphone/

I have had my hands on one just like this before. It made a Martin Mammoth bell look tiny.

[bloke]

I bought one of those - one time - for about $250.

The valves were worn, but it played.

An old black man came in to the (brick-and-mortar) store asking if I had a sousaphone for sale.
He was in town for his brother's funeral and wanted something to play graveside, and then mess with it at home, after it was over.
I sold it to him for $250.