What about buying some pool noodles as a temporary guards? Or, you could make those leather or p-leather wraps, but that is more time consuming.

Cool! Good sir Warren Kus mentioned to me it was in the works!!!!

Although, the spot that tuning slide occupies for the 796 was a nice area to hold the 3301 (pt2p) tuba when your walking with it.

The lead-pipe and second valve tubing on the 4097 CC (pt20) gets in the way...

Bump

Wessex makes a 3+1 Compensating F tuba.


Wessex British F Tuba - TF458 XP
https://us.wessex-tubas.com/products/british-f-tuba-tf458

Besson also made a 3+1 F tuba in the past. One was for sale at the Army Band Conference. In hind sight I should've taken an entire photo of the instrument.

I took ...

Greetings!

Erin Harmon, a Band Director for Coulter Grove Intermediate School in Maryville, Tennessee,
is selling a Yamaha Stadium Hardware Tuba Stand RM-SHT34 Randall May.

The Stadium Tuba stand is a lightweight aluminum folding stand. It has four legs. The front legs can also be raised or ...

I have been informed a deal has been reached for all three horns!

All three horns have been SOLD.

Kontrabasstuba wrote: Wed Aug 19, 2026 2:56 am I wrote an email to Mr. Leichman.
I would be interested in one...

Best of luck!

I was asked to have them listed and get the word out!

My tuba teacher and friend moved back to Tennessee. He said they all play well and are very heavy!!

Hello Everyone!

They are Model 355 BBb with recording bells, also known as "bell fronts" or "forward-facing bells."

They are all in silver with 4 valves. These are large 6/4 tubas.

**All 3 horns have been sold**

Pictures can be found below. Four pictures in total.

URL: https://imgur.com/a ...

Maybe the Wessex Eb Front Piston Tuba ‘Gnagey’ TE465?

Or if you could find the rare Gronitz Piston Eb used.

Since you wanted non-compensating.

Oooorrrrrr you could make a longer fith valve or custom main tuning slide if it ends up being an alright horn in Eb... I haven't spent time with a Yamaha ...

I also do not like King Sousaphone bits!

I'd say go for it!

Hopefully if someone in the future needs bits and the ones you ultimately decided on get lost... It's not a pain to find or easily make.

Or make a one piece solution.

Although, I own a pit tuba and don't own a Sousaphone.

Originally the 4/4 Nirschl. Then Nirschl loaned/sold the tooling to a Brazilian manufacturer, until it became clear they didn't know what they were doing. Now, copies are made by Besson (BE995) and ZO (Little Thunderbird), to varying degrees of success. The ZO I tried was 30 cents flat overall ...

Those are both true statements. I was really close to ranting about fountain pens 🖋️ and nibs ✒️. Eh

There's a video of the TB1 too. The way the bugle is wrapped is actually quite different compared to the TB7. Which means the TB7 is truly an unique or a distinct tuba. Nooooice :care: :hearteyes ...

Bummer the TB7 review video doesn't even have the terrible ai translation. Aw well, I'll still watch it for the horn porn

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ooohhhh HS Musical has a short video of the TB7... neat!!!! I'll just post this here.

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Yeah, I saw that as well. Yet they list the King 2341 as 'professional' ......a tuba commonly seen in grade schools. Whatever, it's all marketing. I think if the Conn CBB4114 turns out really good ...

Thoughts?

https://us.wessex-tubas.com/products/cc-6-4-rotary-valve-tuba-titan-tc796-xp?variant=44156250652852

Maybe im a hater but my initial thoughts are, wow do we really need another giant cc york tuba copy thing?
Full disclosure though
I had a very bad experience with a wessex tuba years ...

I managed to end up with the Reynolds Dr. Young that came up for sale. It doesn't sound bad, I understand the concept that he was going for. The cup is simply too deep to play up to pitch. I'll see if I can make another video demonstrating it.
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Soooooo that might be the perfect mouthpiece ...

The Conn CBB4114 most intrigues me:


Looks like something out of Conn's past (which kinda appeals to me). List price of $8,739 seems . . . ambitious.

I know ZO is making stuff for Conn, as I saw their 20K short-action valve set. Looked pretty good to me!



Conn.jpg


Interesting, I guess ...

As I've mentioned to a coworker of mine with the a similar surname, "A Keefer is a keeper."

...but if you try to argue with me, it's like jumping into a pig pen and wrestling the pig. The more you do it, the more the pig likes it."


Huh, you don't say.

WELL good sir, or, as you prefer to be addressed as Bloke, you better own and keep it. Thankfully, you said the "vintage" ones. I'll ...

Had a colossal brain fart, I have now read your post extra carefully.

Warren Kus is a fantastic person reach out too, assuming Buffet-Crampon (MW/Besson/B&S) is willing to make and send vented valves from factory.

BUT

Baltimore Brass as of March 31, 2026 is an extension of the Buffet Tuba ...