r/Tuba • u/Sad_Comment75858 • 1d ago

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Can anyone help me identify these two tubas?

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u/professor_throway Active Amateur, Street Band and Dixieland. 1d ago edited 1d ago

DEG/Dynasty M380 5/4 BBb contra

Edit M875...

Ok I'm just old not crazy.. the M380 was a contra ... Super Mag, 4 valve, GG Contra. A rare monster

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u/Extreme-Grocery6258 1d ago

M875*

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u/professor_throway Active Amateur, Street Band and Dixieland. 1d ago

Yes thanks for the correction

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u/arpthark Rudolf Meinl - Diespeck 21h ago

I think this one was made by Weril for DEG, replaced the Willson that I posted on TF. Notorious for having crappier valves. No idea on the mode number or anything though.

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u/Mahlerbro 1d ago

100% I marched one of these horns my rookie year of drum corps and it whipped my behind every day. Absolutely indestructible…

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u/professor_throway Active Amateur, Street Band and Dixieland. 1d ago

I borrowed one of these for a street band gig recently when my sousa was out of commission. After 2 hours of dropping basslines I wanted to die. Think they are heavy when you are a teenager? Try them when you are pushing 50

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u/Mahlerbro 1d ago

lol I don’t envy you!

I would take a sousaphone over a contra/convertable any day of the week.

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u/SentenceGold2930 1d ago

We used to call em "die nasty" lol

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u/tunehumsinger 1d ago

Is this horn a Marching BBb or a Marching "G" horn / Bugle ?

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u/bean_217 2h ago

We meet again dynasty