York #3?

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Tue May 17, 2005 1:52 pm

Actually, York #3 is in a Hollywood studio prop department. If you can track down a Sanford and Son episode where Lamont comes home with a tuba and Fred asks him what he's going to do with it, Lamont says he doesn't know and Fred plops a potted plant in it. Yup, that is York #3. I don't know who started the rumor about the Japanese collector, just start watching Sanford and Son re-runs, you'll see it. Needed a shine, too.

Chuck

brianf · Post by **brianf** » Tue May 17, 2005 4:19 pm

I always thought that York #3 was in an old Three Stooges short - Curley blows into and the sound comes out five seconds later. They were living in a junkyard, maybe that was the set they used 40 years later for Fred Sanford.

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Tue May 17, 2005 4:47 pm

bloke wrote:I heard that it was re-engraved Holton to discourage theft, but was disassembled and used for other "project" horns by a shop on the mid-Atlantic seaboard.

If so, it sucked.

Rick "thinking Bloke asked, no begged for this one" Denney

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Tue May 17, 2005 6:18 pm

Hey Joe, turn around and I'll help you get the knife out of your back.........

Chuck"who figured Bloke had it coming but thought he would do the humane thing anyway"Jackson

Lee Stofer · Post by **Lee Stofer** » Wed May 18, 2005 10:23 am

Wow, what a crowd!
According to my limited research;

York CC tubas, original, not cut or augmented;

6/4 - 2 - location, Chicago, IL, USA

5/4 and 4/4 (long-or short-body, based on long-or short-body BBb) -up to
20, of which I've located about 14 in various parts of the US, New Zealand, Germany and England. I think there is also one in Japan. The short-body instrument was the basic model for the Getzen G50/CB50. I would tend to also classify the long-body instrument as a 4/4, as it is very similar in size to the old King 2341, but some argue that it is the 5/4, as it is larger overall than the G50-sized one, which is definitely not a 3/4 instrument. The long-body instrument was the basis for the new PT-606, and Yamaha is reportedly working on a copy of the model 692 York CC.

York #3? I would use that designator for all of the copies that have emanated from the original two. Even Kalison has an impressive York model now.

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Wed May 18, 2005 12:31 pm

Chuck Jackson wrote:Chuck"who figured Bloke had it coming but thought he would do the humane thing anyway"Jackson

He's a big boy and he can take it, heh, heh. I'm sure he'll have plenty of opportunities to get even!

(You don't actually think I thought Joe's creation sucked, do you? It had...issues, but then they all do to some extent.)

Rick "who couldn't bear to lose all the Bonus Points by letting such a golden opportunity slip by" Denney

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Sat May 21, 2005 4:12 pm

No you don't, my Uncles buried it with Jimmie Hoffa's body under a pool in Para........oops, maybe shouldn't let out that little tidbit.....

Chuck"who really does try keep family secrets just that and doesn't want to start a trend of digging up every inground pool in Para.............damn, there I go again"Jackson

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Sat May 21, 2005 11:08 pm

I Love You Joe.

To anybody out there, this is the biggest B.S. post in the world. There is no York #3 in existence. Really there isn't it, at least that's what the collector in Bangledesh told me when I tracked him down yesterday. Of course he could still be bitter over the Strad I sold him that I found in a pawn shop in Vegas. Hey, a hundred bucks is a hundred bucks....He did have a suspiciously large tuba last time I was there looking for clues to eternal life, but hey, a tuba is just a tuba, right?

Chuck

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Sat May 21, 2005 11:38 pm

Wade, are you sure you don't have York 4 1/2 and Jimmy Hoffa's bodygaurd that missing with him? I swear my uncles buried it with Hoffa in Para........well you get the idea...How did the dig go in New.......oops, almost gave that away.....

Chuck

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 2:59 pm

According to my sources, #3 was traded to native Americans for pottery and a few blankets, then floated down the Colorado into the Grand Canyon, where it sank. Salvage efforts are being drawn up as we speak.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:47 pm

barry guerrero wrote:York 3 is stored in a deep underground bunker at Area 51. The government and the greys have been desperately attempting to reverse engineer it. A group of repairmen are flown out to Area 51 from L.V., daily, with the windows blacked out on the jet. The jet does have the Miraphone logo on it though.

Why else would that "Close Encounters" theme be played on a tuba?

Tom Holtz · Post by **Tom Holtz** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:54 pm

I have York #3.

I found it on eBay about five months ago. Got it for $150.00--didn't have to worry about snipers, thank God for "Buy It Now!!"

I'll bring it to TubaChristmas this year. It's nice and all, but it ain't no YBB-321.

I'm thinking of cutting the horn down to a D tuba--great key for playing Rush and Guns 'N Roses covers. Anybody know a shop where I can get Axl Rose's face engraved above the York logo on the bell?

TexTuba · Post by **TexTuba** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:06 am

DP wrote:wierd wierd wierddoesn't this thread belong in the "anything else" (eg b.s.) category?

Where's that category? Is it some special category that I don't know of?

But seriously: I HAVE THE HORN!!! But I'll gladly trade it for a couple of twelve packs of beer. I think that's MORE than fair for this horn..

Ralph

MartyNeilan · Post by **MartyNeilan** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:29 pm

barry guerrero wrote:York 3 is stored in a deep underground bunker at Area 51. The government and the greys have been desperately attempting to reverse engineer it.

It was. Then they moved it to a warehouse, near where the Ark of the Covenant is kept.
We have our "Top People" working on it.

brianf · Post by **brianf** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:21 am

Here's the real story-

York #3 was traded to the Indians for what is now Long Island.

brianf · Post by **brianf** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 1:57 pm

Is it a correct assumption that most of you think York#3 is bogus?

No, Jimmy Hoffa has been playing it for the last 20 years. Then there is the Loch Ness monster, Big Foot, and a fair orchestral audition system. All myths.

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:07 pm

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 11:37 am

I've heard that the valveset was removed, and then it was shipped to Australia during the last war.

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 3:24 pm

Doc wrote:... Doc (who thinks the third York was accidentally left here: )

"That's one half-step for a York, one five-octave leap for Yorkkind" ...

funkcicle · Post by **funkcicle** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 5:10 am

I had better check my FM.

TubeNet

York #3?

Floater

Mooned?