Re: Original tuba designs?


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Posted by Prussian F tuba and Sax horns? on January 02, 2002 at 17:57:41:

In Reply to: Original tuba designs? posted by Jason on January 02, 2002 at 16:48:27:

My copy of "The Tuba Family" is on order, and should be arriving shortly. But if my memory serves, isn't part of the answer to this question found in the original patented basstuba, which was a front action, 6V horn (from memory); while the Saxhorn design was a top action design? I think this explains where the two different approaches (right facing / left facing bells) came from originally.

I, too, would like to see a more detailed geneology, so to speak . . . .

Steve Inman
Kokomo, IN



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