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But, the one who dies with the most toys, wins.

 

 

I'm catching up. Just ordered an Eb sousaphone of ebay. Should have it sometime next week. Having it shipped to the school so the wife doesn't find out yet:cry:. As long as I have my office to keep things in she'll never find out just how many I have:D

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I'm catching up.

 

You still have work to do. When you get your Eb sousaphone, the brass instrument box score will read:

 

Mark 8 (not counting the school's tuba)

SM 5

 

The game is far from over, though.;)

 

May I suggest that you need one of these, though it's often played by a horn player due to the mouthpiece shape and left hand valve cluster:

http://www.osmun.com/prod/Alex/Alex_wagner_tuba.htm

http://www.osmun.com/prod/Schmid/schmid_wagner_tubas.htm

http://www.osmun.com/prod/Hoyer/hoyer_wagner_tubas.htm

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You still have work to do. When you get your Eb sousaphone, the brass instrument box score will read:


Mark 8 (not counting the school's tuba)

SM 5


The game is far from over, though.
;)

May I suggest that you need one of these, though it's often played by a horn player due to the mouthpiece shape and left hand valve cluster:

http://www.osmun.com/prod/Alex/Alex_wagner_tuba.htm

http://www.osmun.com/prod/Schmid/schmid_wagner_tubas.htm

http://www.osmun.com/prod/Hoyer/hoyer_wagner_tubas.htm

 

Would love to get a complete set of the Wagnerian tubas:thu: but I don't do any orchestral work so they would not be worth the money, but still would be fun to have. I still hope to get my hands on an Eb helicon and a contra bass bugle. Eventually I'll find those at the right time and the right place.

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I didn’t post earlier because I own a lot of instruments…

I originally broke them down into two categories, those I play regularly and those I don’t.

I decided to post a list of only the wind instruments I own and play regularly:

 

Saxes

Soprano – Whitehall

Alto – Selmer SA 80 Series II.

Tenor – Selmer Mark VI

Baritone – Selmer Mark VI

 

Flutes

C flutes – Muramatsu, Emerson

Alto Flute – Artley

Piccolo – Jupiter

Penny whistles - Susato

 

Brass

Trumpets – Yamaha Xeno, Olds Ambassador

Flugelhorn – Jupiter

Bass Trumpet – Schill

 

You can hear most of these on my site, with the exception of the penny whistles, piccolo and bass trumpet, which is my most recent purchase.

 

Regards,

 

Jim

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Oh, weird, I just noticed that even though I did post once in this thread, I didn't actually list my horns. I'll do what Jim originally wanted to do:

 

Regularly played

2 Conn Connstellations (a 1966 and a 1967 ... yes, I play them BOTH regularly, I rotate them :) )

Holton Firebird

 

Not regularly played

Jupiter slide trumpet

Bach 37 (retired to my parents' house)

Holton superbone

 

I thought I had another trumpet, but I guess not.

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I'm still a high school student, so the only horns my collective family actually owns are a Yamaha student trumpet (don't know the model) that we actually finished the rent-to-own on and a plastic Yamaha clarinet that my 6th grade sister plays.

We usually have at our house a Conn 5J tuba that I play, a Yamaha removable-bell double horn for my sister that I play occasionally, and a Dynasty mellophone during marching season, also for my sister. We also have an ancient 3-valve Conn tuba in horrible condition with a removable recording-bell.

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A "marching tuba" is a sousaphone, it wraps around the player. A recording bell tuba is a standard tuba, in the lap.

 

 

I know what a Sousaphone is; I thought the "marching tuba" was the one that sits on your shoulder (like what you see at DCI, and yes, they're tubas now, not bugles)

 

I didn't know there were lap-mounted tubas that had front facing bells, that's pretty cool

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I know what a Sousaphone is; I thought the "marching tuba" was the one that sits on your shoulder (like what you see at DCI, and yes, they're tubas now, not bugles)


I didn't know there were lap-mounted tubas that had front facing bells, that's pretty cool

 

Ah, gotcha. They end up looking like this:

 

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