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If you came into money, what new model of tuba would you go out and buy - and why that tuba? Or do you already have your dream tuba?

Only list models of tubas actually currently available new.

Jonathan "who is just interested in what are people's dream tubas"

PS I have just been lucky enough to get my dream tuba - viewtopic.php?t=19255&highlight=

The CSO york!!!! J/K


No really if I had the money I'd probably go out and buy a Nirschl York copy. Of all the york copies I like the Nirschl 6/4's the best.

I'd go for the YamaYork. The combination of Japanese workmanship and technology mixed with most likely the best copy of the CSO York to date.

I haven't tried one yet, but I have a feeling they could beat out my Yorkbrunner. Then again, I actually have my dream horn in the Yorkbrunner, and it would be tough to trade it for anything. I've played four different ones, and mine put the others to shame. I guess I just got lucky with it, considering I didn't try this particular one before it was mine.

Even when it arrived brand new with the bell folded in from shipment, as soon as I played it I knew it was silk.

But if I had all the money in the world for a tuba, I'd probably have Yamaha build me a FF horn. Now that would be neat.

If I had the money, I would use it to do the massive repairs needed on my current horn, (needs bell repairs, all new valve linkages, dents pulled from both bows, valves need to be re-aligned, all the usual problems of a 20+ year old instrument.) Then I would shop for a nice F and call it a day.

A Hybrid comp system that has expanding bores so the block doesn't get stuffy, tone is consistent throughout the range, and you don't have to pull a single slide all the way down to pedals. Oh, yeah, and engineered with Schilke's research so that the step bores keep the odd numbered partials in tune.

Rudolf Meinl Bayreuth model.

I already own a Nirschl 4/4 (a big 4/4) that is plenty big enough to support the orchestras I've played in and a YFB-822S that may be the perfect horn for the rest of everything I do!

However... If I were to win the lottery:
Nirschl 6/4
Nirschl EEb (5-valve, non-comp)
Bass Tuba (Alexander, 5-valve)
MW Cimbasso
Thein Contrabass tbn
I may even consider a rotary F... who know?

Even with lotto winnings, I'd still be a second-rate amateur. So it would still take me a year to learn the fingerings on a C. But if I could own one of those new handmade Meinl-Weston BAT's, it would be worth the trouble.

And if money was no issue, I think Mike Lynch and I might have had to arm-wrestle for the Rudy 6/4 BBb. There was something about that instrument that draws you in. Plus, when you get kicked out of the house for bringing it home, it's big enough to hold the sofa you'll be sleeping on.

I would own a Willson F tuba, perhaps the rotary model. And a Willson 2975 euphonium.

All in all, though, I'd probably first spend lotto money getting my current instruments all spruced up and silver-plated.

Rick "happy with what he has" Denney

Well, if I ever could get a full set of open tones (getting better but frustrating), I think I'd like a helicon along with leiderhosen, a white shirt and bow tie and a funny hat with a feather in it to wear while I play.

Other than that, I think my King is fine. If I need a 4th valve, eventually a nice, new BBflat 3/4 size of the German variety. In the same color lacquer as my Selmer trumpet- that honey gold Selmer color. Even if I have to have it resprayed on my own.

Jeff

I would probably buy the one instrument that I can not justify, in any way, shape, or form: a cimbasso. Prolly MW...

Since I'm firmly entrenched as a rank amateur, I'd be happy with a Mirafone 186 BBb

I am happy with what I have (Alexander 163 CC,
4 valves). If I were to buy another tuba (not likely)
I would buy an Alex 163 CC with 6 valves (not to
replace my old Alex, I just think that it would be
fun to have a 6 valve contrabass tuba).

#1 reason - the Alexander sound!

Mark

A MW Fafner!

And then that Miraphone Contrabass trombone if there was any left...

I want a deal like one of my students got when I was at Ohio State. Somebody had found an Alex 4v CC in an attic or something, and offered it to him for $1500. I told him if he didn't buy it, I would! I don't necessarily want an Alex, I just want the deal!

My dream tuba is simply to have one again. Euphs are pretty, bass bone is fun, but some days it's like kissing your sister.

Nirschl 6/4 or Yamaha YCB-826S, depending upon the individual specimen...

Neptune wrote:Only list models of tubas actually currently available new.

This is difficult. I'd actually rather have some old stuff that you can't buy new or buy back some of the stuff I sold.

For example, a Culbertson 6/4 Neptune rotor (just like yours) would be great, but I'd actually rather buy back the 5/4 Rudy Meinl 4 rotor CC I sold several years ago to use as my "big tuba."

-Alexander 155 or 157 F. I've got an Alex CC right now I really like and a big piston F that is very playable, so an Alexander F would be fun to have around (in addition, not instead of) for something different.

-Alexander 151 Tenor Tuba, too. Front action, rotors, and a sound closer to a tuba than a euph... I like them.

I would buy back my CB-50 I sold, too. It was a great one. Dave Fedderly has it in his personal stable now.

My current CC and F but without intonation problems.

Maybe a 6/4 Martin cut to CC with a MW big piston valve set and 45SLP leadpipe.

CC - Either a Yamayork or the MW Baer, which ever one plays better

I love the MW 2000....

But you need to come into money to buy them anymore......17K new now.....

We'll see.

AVC

Other than being a sweet axe, doesn't "Fafner" just sounds awesome?

I wish more companies would name their horns in their native toungues, instead of XXXX with numbers.

Miraphone and MW get the cool German stuff. Melton could use wanker (is that how its spelled?), tosser, and other cool English-English words, and Willson could use...something.

But what could King and Co. use for American-English?