Re: short action valves


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Posted by Gus Pratt on October 26, 2000 at 00:11:15:

In Reply to: short action valves posted by ken k on October 25, 2000 at 23:18:07:


I assume that what you mean by concert tuba is front action, with bell up? Conn did make a concert tuba with short action valves, but I'm not sure what the model number was. Sometime back in the last 6 months one came up for sale on eBay. Conn only used the short action valves on their larger bore horns; because of its small bore the 52J and 56J cannot be fitted with them without extensive retooling. It was posted on the board early this year that in order to keep the production cost of the new Conn down the stipulation was that it had to use the bottom bow and valve cluster of the King concert tuba.


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