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Challenge: Metal V (Standard Editing)
Collection: 2025 Challenges
Camera: Nikon Z8
Lens: Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-120 f/4 S
Date: Sep 17, 2025
Aperture: f18
ISO: 100
Shutter: 6 s
Galleries: Music
Date Uploaded: Sep 17, 2025

 The Tuba collection residing in my home.

This is what happens when you have two part time professional musicians that play brass instruments residing in one home.

I tried a whole series of shots and set ups with other brass instruments but settled on this one in the end. One of the set ups had 5 tubas, 4 trombones and a trumpet and a bugle, but it was super busy and not easy to distinguish the various horns and fit on my modest black king bed sheet used as the background.

From Left to right

B&S Perantucci PT-6 CC 5/4 Rotary Contrabass Tuba
Gronitz F/B-flat double bass tuba (one of three made in the world)
Conn B-flat 1920s 'Frankenstein' helicon (made from a B-flat sousaphone body with an E-flat tuba bell to give the classic helicon shape)
Yamaha baritone horn
Miraphone 188 CC 4/4 Rotary Contrabass Tuba

Statistics
Place: 3 out of 31
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Votes: 32
Comments: 9
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 10/07/2025 02:50:46 PM
I own a single Yamaha compensating euphonium and a single Benge trombone. And even when I was playing semi-professionally (many, many years ago) I barely could find room in my home for them! I can't even imagine what your storage and display scenario must look like. :-D

But seriously, you've got a lovely knack for photographing these and other instruments attractively. It's surprisingly difficult to get right, and you have a signature touch with it.
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 10/07/2025 01:12:23 AM
excellent work! congrats!
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 10/06/2025 09:33:18 PM
Great shot. Congrats!
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 10/06/2025 02:23:42 PM
Wow, that’s a serious tuba collection you have! Nicely captured!
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 10/06/2025 09:33:23 AM
Congratulations
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 10/06/2025 03:41:11 AM
Congratulations!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/05/2025 08:24:24 PM
Interesting set up. Not easy with all the reflections. Well done.
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 10/05/2025 01:32:00 PM
Coming back around to comment. What? Are you a band leader? How do you find this many instruments at once to capture this? Questions, questions, questions. :-)
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 09/29/2025 09:23:24 AM
beautiful horns
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