List of American-made CC tubas

[bort]

I seem to remember that the Dillon 6/4 was listed on the Dillon website, and it was abundantly clear that it was 100% made in America. Might be able to find it on the Internet Wayback machine?

[DouglasJB]

I believe there are only 4 (?) 1185''s out there. 2 in silver, 2 in lacquer, the one i saw was the last one in Silver, the owner of the horn built it, it was a piece of art, and after hearing a very prominent player play on it, I have no doubt that it is a very rare and special horn

[hbcrandy]

Bill Troiano is correct. King did make a piston valved CC tuba with .750" valve bore. Mark Jones briefly had one several years ago. I also had a stock 5 valved version that was gold plated. It was made for Fred Geib and used the Sander fingering system with the 4th valve operated by the right hand pinky finger being a downward major 3rd and the fifth valve operated by the left hand a downward perfect fourth. Valves 1, 2, 3 and 4 were front action. The fifth valve was just below valve 4 and stuck out the player's left side of the tuba. This was a GREAT tuba. I got it from Warren Deck. I believe that Mike Lynch now owns this tuba.

[bort]

Randy, I have never heard of that tuba before, only the Conn Geib rotary tuba.

Do you have a photo of it you could share here (or email to me)?

[Matt Walters]

King did make a piston valved CC tuba with .750" valve bore.

Indeed true. At least one King piston CC tuba was in my shop once upon a time. It's 4th valve was a 2&3 combination as was preferred by Fred Geib.

As for the Dillon DCB-1185 tuba, don't consider that an American made horn. It was only assembled in America with mostly European parts.

For you really geeky ones, Conn made a (as in 1) 3 valve top action CC tuba that comes in the shop every now and then. Yep, a 10J in CC.