Holton Tuba?

[RichE64]

I am a trombone player who has somehow ended up with a tuba in my music room. Hoping someone might be able to help me identify the Tuba and a reasonable price for said instrument as I need to start cleaning house to make room for the Wessex Dolce Euph I just picked up.

It is labeled as a Holton (nothing else on the bell), with
"MADE IN
CZECHO
SLOVAKIA"
BB-664"

With the "Slovakia" in script.

Bell is 13 3/4 inches, 3 upright valves. I can send pic's if that would help.

Anybody have ideas?

[ghmerrill]

You asked about this horn five years ago on Tubenet and got about as much information on it as you could at that point. It's basically a small (3/4, not 4/4) 3-valve medium quality (Amati manufactured) BBb tuba. It might be of interest to someone for use in a Dixieland band, German band, or to a middle-schooler looking for a small inexpensive tuba.

As for value, that's not very great. My GUESS would be definitely under $1,000, possibly in the $500 range, but it's hard to say. I suggest you contact Dan Schultz and ask him what he thinks.