Name that tuba!

[TheHatTuba]

Any guesses?

[Ace]

Don't know what the tuba is. But, OMG, Schilke is playing a Bb trumpet and Herseth a C trumpet. Horrors. But, the world didn't come to an end, did it.

Ace

[bisontuba]

Maybe a York model 692 4 front piston CC tuba?
Mark

[roweenie1]

It looks very much like a small Holton CC tuba that Toby Hanks used to use back in the day.

Jonesmj, maybe you could post the picture of the York 692 in your catalog (if there is a picture of one in it) so we can compare them?

Very interesting set up, BTW. I wonder if they actually used it in performance, or if it was just for the photograph.

[Timswisstuba]

It looks like 1960's Holton advertising to me.

[Frank Ortega]

I agree with Bob, it looks just like Toby's old Holton CC. I played that horn for almost my entire senior year at MSM in 1991-92.
That horn is in Mike Lynch's collection now, I believe. It could also be a Conn CC tuba, they are very similar.

Frank

[happyroman]

Didn't the CSO Brass Quintet do clinics as Holton artists? If I remember correctly, then that would be the Holton copy of Jake's York.

[eupher61]

I think Fred would be a good name for it.

[bisontuba]

Hi-
Here are York's in CC from the 1928 York catalog. These are the only one's I will post, as it isn't fair to the individual who bought my catalog...catalog is packed so this is it--just a FYI...mark

[roweenie]

Jonesmj,

Thanks for posting those pictures, but you needn't worry, as those two catalog pages are already floating freely around the Web.

As bloke has pointed out, and as I suspected, there is no picture of the elusive 692 in the catalog.

As a side note, that CC Holton that Toby played was quite possibly the only CC tuba I would have ever considered playing on a regular basis - it is an *awesome* horn, and was played by an *awesome* musician.

[eupher61]

Doesn't look like the one in the OP.