Tuba in Sib (Euphonium) by Kessels of Tilburg Holland ca.Mark Jones on Bohland&Fuchs Kaiser BBb T… Wade Rackley on Bohland&Fuchs Kaiser BBb T… Stephen Erickson on Bohland&Fuchs Kaiser BBb T… Tuba in Sib (Euphonium) by Kessels of Tilburg Holland ca. 1930s.players, as the fifth and seventh part will play the tenor Wagner tuba, and the sixth and. Alexander Mainz BBb Model 163 ca.1930’s Prominent Manufactures: Willson, Hirsbrunner, Meinl and Tucci.In fact until the B&S Symphone arrived in the mid 60s and started the oversize F-Tuba arms race, this HB would have been considered a large F-Tuba! When you set it next to a modern Melton or Miraphone, it feels like a large euphonium, although I think its almost the same size as a Miraphone Firebird. Our example tuba is a Model 32 made by Meinl Weston (Melton, if youre in Germany), known as the Meinl Weston 32. Its hand made in Berkeley, California by. Joel Ryan is an accomplished brass instrument player, skilled craftsman and manager of the repair shop. Austrians with their Wiener designs and many of the northern Italian brass makers offered compact F-Tubas similar to the HB. Your repair tech will inform you on when you can pick it up Hirsbrunner tuba repair project. The orchestra 4/4 CC and F tubas seem very much like shortened versions of their sister models…Īgain, I don’t know the origin of Hirsbrunner’s F-Tuba designs, but central and south europeans tended to play on smaller equipment although that has since changed. My theory is that most of Hirsbrunner’s orders were for the Swiss military bands consisting of BBb and Eb tubas. The Eb tubas also share many of the same components.
Both could be had with piston valves as well, models 388 and 389 respectively. Hirsbrunner had two F-Tuba designs, this smaller 288 and a larger 289 model. One can manipulate most slides with little fuss.