Posted by K on May 17, 2003 at 14:50:19:
Found illustrations of a truly odd tuba.
Claimed to be in G, which according to my "calculations" of the tubelength, then would be GG-contrabass pitch.
One more oddity is the relative length pf the 4th valve tubing. I simply find it being too short to be a fourth valve (= lowering the alleged G instrument to D).
All 6 .jpg's can be found via the link given below.
Klaus Bjerre
Retired teacher
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