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Happy Tuba Tuesday. Today, the Museum features a R. Effner BBb Tuba, c.1910.

Height is 40”, the bell diameter is 15.25” and the bore is l735.

“R. Effner/ Musikinstrumentenfabrik / Berlin”

This instrument was originally part of the collection of the late Dr. James W. Thorpen, M.D., of Casper, Wyoming.









https://simonettitubacollection.com/ins ... ba-c-1910/

Wicked cool!

If ya hadn't pointed the period out, i woulda read the shield as saying Reffner.

And the horn-a-copia website has a picture of another one of these with an extra wrap, more normal finger paddles, a kranz, and a less normal bottom bow fin.

(PS, what with the extra wrap making the tuba tighter/smaller, the valve block seem proportionately larger, and the slides pulled out, particularly the second one, the hornicopia one looks like it is making an obscene (at least in america) gesture. Is bird really the word?)

Is it just me, or does the 3rd valve circuit on the museum instrument seem long?

The horn-u-copia instrument has a normal looking 3rd valve wrap, but could the museum instrument have a 2-step 3rd valve?

humBell wrote: ↑Tue Jun 11, 2024 7:50 am (PS, what with the extra wrap making the tuba tighter/smaller, the valve block seem proportionately larger, and the slides pulled out, particularly the second one, the hornicopia one looks like it is making an obscene (at least in america) gesture. Is bird really the word?)

It's generally called Flipping the Bird, but you have a more active imagination than I do.