Posted by Rick Denney on November 13, 2002 at 11:41:29:
In Reply to: Musica Steyr Austria thumbnails posted by Klaus on November 13, 2002 at 11:09:52:
That is a neat-looking valve trombone, and I wouldn't mind owning something like that.
The engraving is exactly the same as a Musica F tuba that I once owned. That F tuba shared most details with Cerveny, so I assumed that was who made it, though there was not "Made in Czechoslovakia" marking. It had the same clock-spring and oval valve touch-pieces as you picture, though with poor-quality ball-and-socket linkages (which I replaced). As you have said before, they may have used Cerveny parts and assembled the instrument in Austria. I found the F tuba in like-new condition (it had never been overhauled) in a surplus store in San Antonio in about 1988.
Rick "who likes the idea of a valve trombone with a large bore and four valves" Denney