Originally Posted by
Mikemason
I posted this on the tuba sites I frequent. You guys probably would have great insight.:
.. with the idea of easiest possible transition from cc tuba. ... Maybe slightly less curvy learning curve?
Does not seem to me to be a remotely adequate motivation for creating such an instrument. The potential market for it seems entirely fanciful.
Gary Merrill
Wessex EEb Bass tuba (DW 3XL or 2XL)
Mack Brass Compensating Euph (DE N106, Euph J, J9 euph)
Amati Oval Euph (DE 104, Euph J, J6 euph)
1924 Buescher 3-valve Eb tuba (with std US receiver), Kelly 25
Schiller American Heritage 7B clone bass trombone (DE LB K/K10/112/14 Lexan, Brass Ark MV50R)
1947 Olds "Standard" trombone (Olds #3)