C. Dallenbach is back to playing the 621-CC

[Joe Baker]

MellowSmokeMan wrote:
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Joe Baker, who was born a poor black child.

[Tom]

Geez, I guess I am the only one who thinks that Dallenbach sounded best on his CB-50. The CB-50 had just as much clarity and a much fatter sound. Of course he sounds fantastic on whatever he plays on: but I really liked his sound on the CB-50.

Agreed...I am way more into the CB-50 sound than his 621 sound or the whatever-the-model-is-822ish-carbon fiber belled-horn

[ken k]

About 6 or 7 (?) years ago they played at Kutztown U in PA and Chuck had the CB-50 tuba with a carbon bell. They did a clinic at 4:00 in the afternoon before the concert. He sat about 3 rows behind me to play the Gabrieli Canzona where they sit all around the auditorium and his sound was quite impressive. Rich and full. The sound of the Yamaha is OK but it really shows its "smallness" on the album with the Berlin Brass playing all the antiphonal brass stuff. In fact the entire quintet has a much different tone than the Berlin Phil Brass ensemble. Of course the Berlin Brass doesn't have to play 2 hour concerts 5 nights a week either. I am sure CB's choice of equipment has as much to do with endurance and playability as it does pure sound. I think the trumpets tend to use slightly smaller equipment than most orchestral guys. I am not saying this is a bad thing. It is just the reality of brass playing and the more "commercial" sound they have. Again I am not saying one is better than the other jsut different. It just goes to show that bigger is not always better.

ken k

[MaryAnn]

It really depends on the venue they are playing in. In the last couple years, both CB and EB have done concerts here in town, and I could NOT hear the tuba in either one of them. Chuck had the 621 CC on that visit, IIRC. And the EB tuba player was using a 3+1 Eb. Both of their sounds just went up into the ceiling and didn't come back down again.

On quintet tubas: different quintets seem to want different sounds, and of course the higher level the quintet, the more knowledgable they are about what they want. In my very amateur quintet, the 184 CC doesn't overpower them; except when we are playing medieval music, at which point the lighter sound of the F tuba works much better. And those parts tend to be up in the staff anyway.

MA