Re: More on (not moron) Non-Metallic Bells


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Posted by Marty Neilan on October 11, 2000 at 09:50:43:

In Reply to: More on (not moron) Non-Metallic Bells posted by Daryl Hickman on October 11, 2000 at 09:22:06:

YES! My high school (Nutley, NJ) had two of them in the eighties. They came with convertable leadpipes to be used as marching tubas. Easy to overblow, but that was the point in HS marching band, anyway. I was told that the fiberglass bell was for marching. I still used the brass bell although it did make it a little front heavy. I had to drill a hole in the brass bell for one of the three bell screws to go through, otherwise the bell would periodically pop off! Not great horns by any stretch, but they did project with the brass bell a lot better than our POS fiberglass sousaphones did. Plus, during the drum numbers, I could toss around and spin the little marching tuba like what the twirlers were doing (just not as high). My successor wimped out and used the fiberglass bell for marching. Youth - you try to train 'em up right...






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