Name that tuba

[TheHatTuba]

Does anyone know what tuba Charles Daellebach is using in the two VEVO YouTube videos?

[Kevin Hendrick]

Does anyone know what tuba Charles Daellebach is using in the two VEVO YouTube videos?

Didn't find 'em -- links would help.

[tbn.al]

Link? Did somebody say link?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41kD6TNps-Y" target="_blank

[Kevin Hendrick]

Link? Did somebody say link?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41kD6TNps-Y" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank

Thank you! The tuba looks very Yamaha-621-ish ... I'd guess either a custom "travel version" (removable bell) YCB-621 or perhaps its Schilke predecessor.

[TheHatTuba]

Link? Did somebody say link?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41kD6TNps-Y" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank

Thank you! The tuba looks very Yamaha-621-ish ... I'd guess either a custom "travel version" (removable bell) YCB-621 or perhaps its Schilke predecessor.

I though 621, but a slide doesnt look right. it has a ring (easy enough to get) but also its much taller than any of the 621 slides.

[imperialbari]

This is the CB I saw and heard live in Copenhagen in 1989. I was most impressed by the trumpet players and by David Ohanian.

The gardener taking over the tuba in Pachelbel puzzles me. Recording technique doesn’t call for him to be a tuba player, but he doesn’t look entirely foreign to brass playing. The person he reminds me of is one of the trumpet players in the West Coast (LA?) quintet named The Brass Band (2 trumpets, trombone, euphonium, & tuba). Any ID on him?

Klaus

[Kevin Hendrick]

Link? Did somebody say link?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41kD6TNps-Y" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank

Thank you! The tuba looks very Yamaha-621-ish ... I'd guess either a custom "travel version" (removable bell) YCB-621 or perhaps its Schilke predecessor.

I though 621, but a slide doesnt look right. it has a ring (easy enough to get) but also its much taller than any of the 621 slides.

This may shed a bit more light (or not -- hope it helps!):

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=37939&start=12

[Steve Inman]

At 2:36 in the linked video ("Amazing Grace"), you can clearly study the instrument. The layout of the valves is not at all like the 621, where the 4th valve is placed much closer to the bell than any of the others (based on a google search of 621 images). The bell flair is also significantly wider than the 621 model. In addition, the valve slide with the pull ring is not running in a plane that is parallel with the main bugle wrap, but is rotated at a noticeable angle. None of the 621 slides is oriented this way. Finally, the valve cluster in the linked video is located virtually dead-center in the horn, whereas the 621 cluster is about 60/40.

Whatever it is, it has multiple, significant differences to the 621 CC -- enough differences that I would say it is a different horn altogether.

That's what I can see ....

Cheers,

[Kevin Hendrick]

At 2:36 in the linked video ("Amazing Grace"), you can clearly study the instrument. The layout of the valves is not at all like the 621, where the 4th valve is placed much closer to the bell than any of the others (based on a google search of 621 images). The bell flair is also significantly wider than the 621 model. In addition, the valve slide with the pull ring is not running in a plane that is parallel with the main bugle wrap, but is rotated at a noticeable angle. None of the 621 slides is oriented this way. Finally, the valve cluster in the linked video is located virtually dead-center in the horn, whereas the 621 cluster is about 60/40.

Whatever it is, it has multiple, significant differences to the 621 CC -- enough differences that I would say it is a different horn altogether.

That's what I can see ....

Cheers,

That's what made me think it might be the Schilke -- have been looking (without success, so far) for pictures of it.

[Steve Inman]

Bump -- I'm curious -- anyone else have an idea?

[iiipopes]

I keep telling people that I played a tuba like this in undergrad, and nobody believes me! I'm wondering if the two of them were some sort of prototypes or limited runs, but after all these years I have finally seen a picture of the tuba (albeit with a conventional 1-piece bell rather than a detachable) that I played at my undergrad, Drury, in Springfield. Some years ago I borrowed it for a cut on a friend's album, then saw it only one more time when I borrowed an eefer for another concert from the storage closet in the basement. When I checked on it again, I was advised that the basement had flooded, shelving had given way, and a lot of stuff was sent to the dumpster, probably including these two tubas.