Posted by YM on April 04, 2003 at 17:12:25:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Martin Tubas posted by Carole Nowicke on April 04, 2003 at 10:05:23:
Found the pics of that Martin euph with 4 rotary top action valves. Hopefully one of them pops up above here. All of the pics can be found through the link given below here.
You can log in with Yahoo identity = brassphotos and the password = public. This goes for all the links given here.
For freaks it might be interesting to compare the similarities in the lever action found in
http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/yorkmasterpublicphotosix/lst?.dir=/Cerveny+Bb+oval+Bariton+4R+pre-1930
and
http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/yorkmasterpublicphotosvi/lst?&.dir=/Cerveny+Bariton+pre-1930
Henry Distin had used the same system prior to 1966:
http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/yorkmasterpublicphotosxi/vwp?.dir=/Besson+1985+catalogue+(Sovereign+-+700)&.dnm=4+very+old+upright+brasses.jpg&.src=gr&.view=t&.hires=t