The B&S MRPCC is inspired by B&S performing artist Dan Perantoni, and features a larger bell and an enormously wide bottom bow, taken from the Fafner series.
It is the newest B&S CC tuba and is considered a 5/4 + size with a sound more like the German BBb tubas, but playing with the ease of a CC-Tuba.
A lot of players also find it easier to blow and notice an increase in intonation compared to other large CC tubas.
According to MR P, “The MRP-C really produces that great German rotary sound that I had in mind.”
Jeffrey Anderson
Principal Tubist San Francisco Symphony
Christopher Blaha
Associate Professor of Tuba & Euphonium, University of Akron, OH
Steve Campbell
Principal Tuba at Minnesota Orchestra / Adjunct Professor of Tuba at University of Minnesota
Chris Combest
Tuba Faculty, Middle Tennessee State University
Dan Perantoni
Professor of Tuba, Indiana University
Mason Soria
Principal Tuba at Los Angeles Philharmonic
Patrick Young
Principal Tuba at Opera Colorado