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Rotary Willson 3400 at Dillon Music. Ooooohhhh

https://www.dillonmusic.com/used-willso ... a-sn-1029/

Is someone here buys this, I'd recommend sending the valves to Martin Wilk to have him un-Rotax them and make them more like regular rotary valves.

I did that with my 3050RZ, and it made a world of difference. If I had the whole tuba in Martin's hands... I would have asked him to gut and replace the linkages. They are very fussy and not much fun to deal with.

Off topic, but relevant – bort, could you please disclose how much did the conversion cost? Not that I'm thinking about it. Just curious.

EDIT: Just noticed the tuba has four valves. Interesting, I didn't even know they made bass tubas with 4 valves.

I think it was $80 per valve. So with shipping, it was $450.

It looks so empty. I'm not used to that.

Its the Switzerland Star model

The Kurath people really make some fine instruments.
I've owned one of the rotary bass tubas...It had a lot of RZzmatazz.

Oh, I loved that damn rotary 3050. But the valve block was a few inches too high, and needed major surgery to fix the ergonomic issues. Could have been done... And maybe I should have done it ... But I bailed on it.

Kind of wish it had worked out, because it played great (and huge!). Build.quality and silver plating were the BEST!

Really nice instruments, but it would benefit from a 5th valve , IMHO

$7900 is a lot of money to pay for a horn that can't play a Low F in tune