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I certainly haven't been playing tuba for as long as some people on here, but it seems to me that tubas having model names instead of just numbers is a recent fad. I think it works too, I loved to name Neptune when I played one a while ago. Am I forgetting any names from this list:

The Neptune
The Fafner
The Fasolt
The Baer
The Kodiak
The Tuono
The Thor
The Sassy
The HoJo
The Firebird
The Petroushka
The Bruckner
The Siegfried

I'm not counting "Piggy" as it was/is a nickname I think. And where is "The Valkyrie"??

Missing from the list:
Norwegian Star
Starlight
New Yorker
Bel Canto

Some of the old E flat tuba names:

York Monster
Conn Giant

My E flat is an old York Monster that has not been altered.
best (perhaps in this case, beast),
Mark

Don't for get the Bubbie.

Donatelli

Yes, there was the Donatelli model Conn, the Helleberg Conn, the Bayreuth model Rudolf Meinl (used annually at the Bayreuth Festival), the Daryl Smith model Kalison, the Harvey Phillips model Conn, and the William Bell model Meinl-Weston. I'm sure there are others.

Sure, but what did Siegfried, Thor et al. do to get their names on a tuba? They didn't even exist! They sound like the names of Wagner tubas.

"Monica"

First horn was a Yamaha YBB-641: "Godzilla".
Current Horn B&S GR51: "The Golden Vanity"

I assume Godzilla was your idea, but that would be a good one for the high end Yamaha CC, wouldn't it?

Mighty Midget (BBb tornister tuba) from Wessex

Don't forget, "BIG JOE" the tuba for that real tall Pit tuba that King made.

Cuddly-Wuddly
Honey-Poo
Shoogie-Woogie

(I'm really close with my instruments.)

Let us not forget the Mammoth! And I must mention my late friend and colleague Bob Roig who named his prized tuba Floyd.

I named my 188 'Excalibur'.

My wife calls the tubas, "the other women" and named them accordingly.

Miraphone CC="Chloe"
Meinl Weston F="Franscheska"

there's the royal family from the UK - The Regent, The Imperial and the Sovereign

peter birch wrote:there's the royal family from the UK - The Regent, The Imperial and the Sovereign

. . . plus the Emperor and the Empire

I just refer to it as "The Beast"

Whenever I call mine by name it goes something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGxyIhsSAow" target="_blank