Re: Playing a Famous Instrument


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Posted by 1937 York CC on June 03, 2003 at 12:17:49:

In Reply to: Playing a Famous Instrument posted by Daniel C. Oberloh on June 03, 2003 at 02:01:05:

I have a 1937 York factory CC with upright and Forward bells.Its being rebuilt at the moment, very slowly and carefully. I have even had custom tubind made to replace the slide legs. I bought it last year from Bob Tucci, it took me 5 years to bring him round to selling it. Here is the history as Bob told me:

I purchased the instrument from Harold Mc Donald in1982 or 1983. Harold
who was a very fine and amazingly enthusiastic musician had played with the
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from 1952 until approx. 1982. His teeth gave
out, and he became the orchestra's Production Manager until passing away the
eve before a tour that would have taken the orchestra to Edinburgh and on to
Europe.

The instrument spent most of it's life in Chicago of course. It was ordered
in 1937 by Arnold for one of his students.. He did mention the name of that
person to me at one time but I did not make a record of same. It seems that
Jimmy Palicek, a bassist with the CSO and occasional second tuba player with
the orchestra owned it for many years as did Alice Schilke, the wife of
Renold Schilke.

A good old friend of Harold's, Laury (Laurence) Ledato, department manager of
the once great Lyon's Band Instrument Company on Lake Street in Chicago, had
the instrument carefully overhauled and plated in their excellent shop. That
goes back to the early sixties when he obtained the instrument. Lyons was a
big Mid-West distributor, mail-order and retail operation.

Mike Johnson



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