Posted by takin' a break on September 13, 2003 at 19:02:00:
Here's a picture of a King-made "American Standard" tuba (Eb, surely) that is being offered for sale. Boy, it's body sure resembles that "Bill Bell F tuba [King-made]" (also being offered for sale).
I wonder if has occurred to anyone else that it might be fun to buy the next beat-up 4-valve King Eb sousaphone offered for sale, make this tuba (pictured here) and that sousa valveset into a faithful replica of the "Bill Bell F", and offer for sale:
PROTOTYPE FOUND!!! TWIN OF BILL BELL'S F-TUBA!!!! [reserve $6000]
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Or, thinking about it a different way, I wonder how much "Bill Bell's F tuba" would be worth without the "Bill Bell" part?
- too tired to practice right this minute