Re: Playing a York 6/4 -- What's it like?


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Posted by Joe S. on February 03, 2000 at 20:37:29:

In Reply to: Playing a York 6/4 -- What's it like? posted by doubler on February 03, 2000 at 16:36:21:

Gene let me play it once down in the C.S.O. locker room. I was too dumb to realize that it was a rare treat. I must say that the York WAS "forgiving". Admittedly, that room was too "live", but that tuba had a very nice sound (EXTREMELY resonant, just as it sounds to us, the listeners) and just the right amount of resistance. Pitch, as on all jumbos, is/was not ideal, but better on some of its wanna-be copies. The third partial G, for instance, wasn't a problem. However the F is goofy, which is unlike most "copies".

The thing has had the "crap" buffed out of it a couple of times, it appeared to me. I would bet that it originally was SATIN silver, and is NOW BRIGHT silver. To do that takes TONS of buffing away of material.

Its hard to tell someone else how an instrument plays... (:^/)


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