Posted by Dave Zerkel on July 10, 2000 at 11:02:14:
In Reply to: Nirschl "5/4" posted by Patrick Sheridan on July 10, 2000 at 08:10:51:
Thanks, Pat, for clearing this one up.
The only reason that I had been calling mine a 5/4 was because of the blurb on Nirschl in the back of the Tuba Source Book. If memory serves (which it will have to, as my life is in a zillion tiny boxes right now), they only listed a 5/4 size for CC tuba. That was early on in the game for Walter in the US market as was my horn, so I just made a relatively flimsy connection.
Good to have the straight dope though!
DZ