custom Lignatone 6/4+ (7/4??) BBb frankentuba (Brazil)

arpthark · Post by **arpthark** » Fri Dec 15, 2023 8:05 am

Folks in Brazil are doing some pretty wild stuff with tubas. Posted by Bernardo Palma Gonçalves on some Facebook groups:

Tubajug · Post by **Tubajug** » Fri Dec 15, 2023 9:59 am

That thing definitely has "girth!" Nice!

Stryk · Post by **Stryk** » Fri Dec 15, 2023 11:52 am

I think I read that the bell was custom made. It's certainly HUGE!

bloke · Post by **bloke** » Fri Dec 15, 2023 11:57 am

horn porn...

' might (??) also be a really fine instrument (sound/tuning/music/etc.), but who knows...(??)

(NOT implying an analogy, but only presenting a possibility) sorta like pictures of beautiful women who - in-person - talk with nasal New Jersey accents, smoke cigarettes, and have bad gas...or the same amazing-lookin' women who are computer-generated pics...

This may very well be a wonderful instrument...but we will never know, will we ?

arpthark · Post by **arpthark** » Fri Dec 15, 2023 12:19 pm

Yes, custom bell. Never seen anything that chunky. Might be the angle (fisherman posing with bass) but the proportions are definitely interesting.

bloke · Post by **bloke** » Fri Dec 15, 2023 12:26 pm

Not many of the European kaiser B-flat tubas are easy to steer in-tune.

In a video of a 197 ( https://www.melton-meinl-weston.com/en/ ... as/1972-2/ ) player (totally different config, but same classification) a top-level player (top-level orchestra) has a tune-any-note main slide thing goin'.

...which was the (easily tuneable) "attract" to me for the one for which I waited so very long to own and shelled out fairly serious dough to be able to own.

Dents Be Gone! · Post by **Dents Be Gone!** » Fri Dec 15, 2023 12:57 pm

I agree, guys. This is the way to go.

The Big Ben · Post by **The Big Ben** » Fri Dec 15, 2023 2:25 pm

On the same theme, guys in my hometown growing up (White Center WA south of Seattle) used to make '68 Camaros in gray primer with huge drag racing rear tires and two carburetors on a tunnel ram on a 427 Chevy motor sticking out of a crudely cut hole in the hood. Goes like a mutha straight but don't try to turn or stop. And, unless the throttle was wide open, it sounded constipated at any RPM below 6000. But, it would do the quarter mile in 10 seconds or less. Anyone who knows about the theory of tuning internal combustion engines will know why it acted like that.

Ace · Post by **Ace** » Fri Dec 15, 2023 2:48 pm

Top photo: Looks as if the main is about to slide completely out and drop on floor.

Ace

arpthark · Post by **arpthark** » Fri Dec 15, 2023 3:17 pm

Ace wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 2:48 pm Top photo: Looks as if the main is about to slide completely out and drop on floor.

Ace

Looks almost all the way in to me. The outer tubes are brass which may make it look like it's hanging out.

Three Valves · Post by **Three Valves** » Fri Dec 15, 2023 4:42 pm

Everything is bigger in Brazil!

Tubas, rivers, BOOTY!

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