York Tuba @ Dillon Music

TubaTodd · Post by **TubaTodd** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 5:12 am

I was wondering if anyone knows if the York Master tuba on the Dillon Music website used to belong to David Unland from Ithaca College. It looks like it....and the listing on their website mentions an extra bell which Dave prefered to use. If that was his horn, does anyone know why he was sell it after all of these years?? Perhaps he uses his 6/4 York all of the time now.

cjk · Post by **cjk** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 9:43 am

This one is even more interesting:

York CC 4/4 CC model # 692 with 4 pistons valves. No case.

Looks like a replacement bell, maybe a cut from BBb??

Hey Andy !!

TubaTodd · Post by **TubaTodd** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 8:57 pm

TubaAS wrote:Todd,

Just before I left Ithaca and lost contact with Dave, he sent a couple of York BBb's to Matt to have a custom York CC made for him.

I would love a York CC, but with my new toy coming here in the beginning of next year, I can't justify it Christian....

What is your new toy??? Do tell..

enewberger · Post by **enewberger** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 9:02 pm

Friends, this is indeed the York Master that I bought from Dave Gannett as a BBb some 15 years ago. Bob Osmun cut it down to CC and silver-plated it, after which I played it on the recording "In Search of New Orleans" with the New Black Eagle Jazz Band. When I decided to sell it (placing an ad in the International Musician), Dave Unland drove down from Ithaca. He spent a good amount of time with the horn, and we played some duets. He was pleased with it, as was I. The instrument was responsive, and the sound deep, focused, and massive.

My best to all,

Eli

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 12:47 am

enewberger wrote:Friends, this is indeed the York Master that I bought from Dave Gannett as a BBb some 15 years ago.

Mr. Newberger, do you know the dates of the instrument, such as when was it new? I'm trying to gather data points here and there on the York Masters of this configuration.

I have the York Master (still in BBb) that was owned by Oscar Lagasse and later by Chris Hall. It's in lacquer, but otherwise the same as the one pictured.

Lee Hipp stopped by for a visit in July, and he preferred this tuba over all my others, and thought it was top-notch. I think it is, too. The valves, in particular, are the best I've ever touched.

Joe's comments about the sixth partial match my own experience with this instrument. I also find the fourth partial is a bit flat. But since I have exactly the same tendencies on the Holton, I have this feeling that it's me.

Did yours take regular mouthpiece shanks? Mine was not properly reamed at the factory and had been played by all previous owners using mouthpieces with a Besson-sized shank. Doug Elliott reamed it to normal dimensions for me after discovering that the receiver had no taper in it. That made it possible to get a mouthpiece with a very open throat, which this tuba in particular seems to really like.

The fourth valve on this instrument blows as easily as any tuba I've ever played, and the low register is startlingly easy to blow compared to the Holton (which has an oversized sewer-pipe bore on the fourth).

Mine's not for sale, heh, heh. I would hope this one doesn't remain for sale for long.

Rick "who thinks the YM is resonant and has a deep sound beyond it's size" Denney

Bandmaster · Post by **Bandmaster** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:33 am

To cut down on the confussion, the York-Master is the tuba with the removable bell! The other is a Grand Rapids York. And from the looks, it is an original CC tuba. At least the valve set up looks same as the old York catalog shows.

I am hoping that Dillion will sell me one of the bells that comes with this tuba. I need one for the York-Master I bought last October. Check viewtopic.php?t=10868 to see my York-Master. At least I have already sent Matt Walters an email in hopes getting one.

enewberger · Post by **enewberger** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 12:02 pm

Folks,

I just remembered that when I had the horn cut down to CC, I asked Bob Osman to put on it the spare Martin silver-plated bell that came with an old Holton Del Negro horn purchased about 5 years before. (After repair of the original bell, that horn played beautifully, and is now being played in the Harvard University Band, to which I donated it several years ago.) If memory serves, I also gave Dave the original, unplated York Master bell.

Eli

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York Tuba @ Dillon Music

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information on the bell of Dave Unland's York Master