Happy Tuba Tuesday. Today, the Museum features a Keefer, BB flat sousaphone, 4 piston, c.1939.
Serial #: 24151
Bell Diameter 23”, Bore Size .685”.
Comments:
This instrument has no visible identification marks because it has been painted.
https://simonettitubacollection.com/ins ... saphone-2/
Tuba Tuesday: Keefer, BB flat sousaphone, 4 piston, c.1939
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Tuba Tuesday: Keefer, BB flat sousaphone, 4 piston, c.1939
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Re: Tuba Tuesday: Keefer, BB flat sousaphone, 4 piston, c.1939
Glad they were still making the valve sets in the late 30s!
I don't have a better suggestion for the 4th valve circuit, but somehow it doesn't match the aesthetic of the others?
Indeed there is a weird perverseness in me what particularly likes the earlier variant on the 3rd valve circuit that sticks beyond and under the wrap. But that is protected by a helicon bell that don't come off, whereas sousas' bells do (so i think i understand some design trade offs involved?)
I don't have a better suggestion for the 4th valve circuit, but somehow it doesn't match the aesthetic of the others?
Indeed there is a weird perverseness in me what particularly likes the earlier variant on the 3rd valve circuit that sticks beyond and under the wrap. But that is protected by a helicon bell that don't come off, whereas sousas' bells do (so i think i understand some design trade offs involved?)
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Re: Tuba Tuesday: Keefer, BB flat sousaphone, 4 piston, c.1939
Happy birthday, @bisontuba!
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Re: Tuba Tuesday: Keefer, BB flat sousaphone, 4 piston, c.1939
Sorry i forgot your birthday!
And it took me this long to remember the notice at the bottom of the index...
PS I still like Keefers.
And it took me this long to remember the notice at the bottom of the index...
PS I still like Keefers.
"All art is one." -Hal