Re: Re: Re: 3 valve vs. 4 valve for beginner?


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Posted by Lyon Healy on May 12, 2003 at 07:31:23:

In Reply to: Re: Re: 3 valve vs. 4 valve for beginner? posted by Steven on May 11, 2003 at 21:15:09:

Go with the 4 valve Eb helicon because the valves have already been redone. Leaky valves will make any instrument much more difficult to play in tune. Dr. Young is technically correct, but if his way were the only way everyone would be playing on compensating tubas, while only a very small minority do. If they were that much better the marketplace would demand that all tuba makers make their best instruments compensating, as is the case with euphoniums. A 4 valve BBb tuba would also be a good choice, but if you plan to do much standing while playing the helicon would work better.

"Champion Silver Piston" was a brand name sold by Lyon & Healy in Chicago. They claim to have had their own brass instrument manufacturing facilities at one time, but the vast majority of horns sold by them were made by someone else. Some were made in the US and some in Europe, in France and Czechoslovakia. I haven't found a good reference telling which were made where.


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