27th September 2024
Museum
The Vincent and Ethel Simonetti Historic Tuba Collection
— 1825 Chapel Hill Road, Durham, NC 27707
Vincent Simonetti collected his first historic tuba - a ~1910 Cerveny BB-flat Helicon - in Boston in 1965, while playing tuba on tour with the Moyseev Ballet Company. Today the collection has grown to more than 350 tubas, and is now the largest private collection in the world that is dedicated exclusively to members of the tuba family.
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