Late '70's - Early '80's Yamaha Tubas

[iiipopes]

I find myself a little confused.
I own a YCB-621 that I purchased new, from the Tuba Exchange @1989. The serial number is in the single digits.
I guess that they could have gotten it from Yamaha much earlier, and just did not "get around" to selling it.

My whole point exactly. I don't think it was a 621.

[Rick Denney]

I find myself a little confused.
I own a YCB-621 that I purchased new, from the Tuba Exchange @1989. The serial number is in the single digits.
I guess that they could have gotten it from Yamaha much earlier, and just did not "get around" to selling it.

I played a Daellenbach model C Yamaha in the middle 80's, probably 1985 and no later than '86. During that period, the Canadian Brass was parading around with their gold-plated instruments "designed by Renold Schilke", and as we all know, they were Yamahas. I attended a master class led by Daellenbach in about 1991 or 1992, with my 621 F tuba in hand, and Chuck and I compared notes. He showed me how the valves on his were vented. By that time, he had been playing the 621 for a very long time. That was the instrument he used following what I seem to recall was a Miraphone 184.

He may have been playing a Schilke prototype that didn't go into production, but that doesn't explain the demo model I played in Austin in the middle 80's. That instrument was definitely a C tuba, and it was definitely a front-piston tuba, and it was definitely small. It was also definitely attributed to the Canadian Brass.

On a lark, I thought I'd look on Yamaha's web page. Could have saved myself some typing, heh, heh.

http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/Con ... 00,00.html and click the "history" tab.

It says it was introduced in 1985.

The YFB and YBB 621 models came out in 1989, and the 822 models came out in 1992. I bought my 621 F directly from Yamaha in 1990 at TMEA, at the end of the show season. Mine is 100072. My bet is that yours had been in the store for several years.

Rick "wishing their history included discontinued models" Denney

[tubatooter2]

I own and play a Yamaha CC 621 tuba that was originally owned by Jim Self and I contacted him about it.
His reply: "Yes that is the FIRST (maybe only) 5 valve 621 CC Yamaha.
At the time they only made a 4 valve which is useless for a studio musician.
So I asked Yamaha to make it for me. It was a good horn but quite small sound. "

The model on the valve casing is YCB621 but there is a sticker on the case that says YCB681x.
Not certain what that means?
The bell is 16 inches (not the 14+ inch bell).
I'm not sure if Yamaha built it that way for Jim or it was changed later.
I have had the tuba for maybe 20 years and really enjoy it.

John Clark

[Dan Schultz]

Yamaha tuba serial number 100001 would have been AFTER 1988 and should have plastic valve guides.

[cjk]

I own and play a Yamaha CC 621 tuba that was originally owned by Jim Self and I contacted him about it.
His reply: "Yes that is the FIRST (maybe only) 5 valve 621 CC Yamaha.
At the time they only made a 4 valve which is useless for a studio musician.
So I asked Yamaha to make it for me. It was a good horn but quite small sound. "

The model on the valve casing is YCB621 but there is a sticker on the case that says YCB681x.
Not certain what that means?
The bell is 16 inches (not the 14+ inch bell).
I'm not sure if Yamaha built it that way for Jim or it was changed later.
I have had the tuba for maybe 20 years and really enjoy it.

John Clark

Could you possibly post some pictures of this tuba? I'm curious to see it. I've thrown around the idea of adding a 5th valve to my YCB-621.

[Z-Tuba Dude]

Yamaha tuba serial number 100001 would have been AFTER 1988 and should have plastic valve guides.

What would have been the serial numbers for the first YCB-621's?