FAFNER 195 'THE KAISER TUBA' Meinl Weston's hand built Super-Tuba!

[@renebenders4309]

Nice sounding tuba 👌👍😀❤️

[@renebenders4309]

Very good player 👍👌❤️

[@JohannaA.5013]

Power! Unlimited Power!

[@tesmith47]

yeah i got to get me one!!!!

[@thomasdavis8117]

Really appreciate throwing in a wind ensemble excerpt maybe you could talk more about brass band playing in future videos?

[@steverosseyoutubechannel5999]

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[@dumitrudanieltoadere-hc8vg]

Bună seara ce modele este tuba

[@allisonbeletatti3741]

What do you have to say about the Melton 25 bb tuba?

[@Felix-nh5pw]

Its nice tuba! At least you have something you can handle, unlike guy in the video ;) I believe that model 25 is the most versatile B flat tuba by Melton now. May be you check model 97/2. Its completely "new" 4/4 B flat tuba (another succesfull reference of Bohland und Fuchs). Congratulations for great instrument👍

[@tonywatson414]

You say the tuba is in B flat and is used in Wagner, such as Siegfried. But in the score it is written for a tuba in C. Does the player have to transpose at sight?

[@solarlegend9813]

Bb and C tuba both play at concert pitch so it's just different fingers and played how it's writen

[@markpeterson8804]

I thought the Fafner is the 195 model and the Hilgers the 197.

[@Felix-nh5pw]

Model 197 is basicly copy of old Bohland und Fuchs made by Melton. Prof. W. Hilgers had one Bohland before. Fafner is completely newly developed model... Believe me I was a tuba bell maker in Czchech republic in V.F. Červený... the birth place of kaisertubas :)

[@markpeterson8804]

@@Felix-nh5pw yes that’s what I thought. I owned a 195. Daniel Ridder has a Bohland and Fuchs Kaiser model as well.

[@Felix-nh5pw]

​@@markpeterson8804 You are right. By the way. Have you ever tried Daniel Ridder mothpiece by JK? What you think about that? Bohlands are great but many exemplars have problems in tuning, especially rebuild exemplars from Vienna tuning.

[@markpeterson8804]

@@Felix-nh5pw no I have not tried that model of mouthpiece. Daniel told me that Wessex borrowed his Bohland to use as a basis for their Kaiser model.

[@Felix-nh5pw]

@@markpeterson8804 Well I dont like Wessex so much due poor quality of manufacture, but it surely will play good. I have mesaured some other chinese /thaiwan tubas and those are usually identical to Miraphone, BsS and Melton etc. I still dont understand why there is no law for copying that 🤔😕 They just making quite good, cheap instruments without expensive development.

[@Emmeris1]

Cool i dont know That James Hetfield also is a well Tuba Player

[@joserutten3729]

It’s a 195/2