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Help to identify this tuba
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 9:03 pm
by saxophyte
This is a recent purchase of mine .The bore is .750 , It looks to me like a york 716 with a removable bell.
Re: Help to identify this tuba
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 9:04 pm
by saxophyte
Re: Help to identify this tuba
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 10:00 pm
by saxophyte
serial number 116xxx
Re: Help to identify this tuba
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 11:12 pm
by Dan Schultz
Hmmm... .750" bore?? Looks like a York 'Master' to me.
Re: Help to identify this tuba
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 11:23 pm
by saxophyte
It doesnt look like any of the master pictures on the internet.
for instance
https://www.google.com/search?q=york+ma ... B450%3B658" target="_blank" target="_blank
Re: Help to identify this tuba
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 11:40 pm
by Dan Schultz
saxophyte wrote:It doesnt look like any of the master pictures on the internet.
How about these two?
Re: Help to identify this tuba
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 7:17 am
by roweenie
Hard to tell from your pictures.
A close up of the braces would help.
Bob
Re: Help to identify this tuba
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 7:57 am
by TheHatTuba
Gonna guess original York. The bell receiver and valve caps are slightly different than the York Master tubas Dan posted but are identical to the York 716 I own.
Re: Help to identify this tuba
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 9:57 pm
by bigtubby
Hmmm shiiiny and near Cleveland ...
Re: Help to identify this tuba
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 10:43 pm
by saxophyte
BUT NOT FROM SOUTH EUCLID !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: Help to identify this tuba
Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 12:42 am
by Dan Schultz
TheHatTuba wrote:Gonna guess original York. The bell receiver and valve caps are slightly different than the York Master tubas Dan posted but are identical to the York 716 I own.
There are some slight differences in appearance but I don't think the original Yorks used the tapered receiver/tenon sets. That seems to be a Bohm & Meinl thing.
The name 'York' was passed around quite a bit once the American York factory was closed.
Re: Help to identify this tuba
Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 1:10 am
by Tabor
Despite the general condition, lacquer & overall appearance, The caps & two thick braces on the upper 3rd slide kinda say York to me. Gee whiz, the older YM and the Yorks look a lot alike.
...also, the bell screws are at the very top of the tenon, like a York...
....also that big a** diamond shaped brace on the leadpipe front & center...
Yep. Going with York.
