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I have never seen so much excitement about listing.

sugawi wrote: Mon Jun 08, 2026 1:24 pm Listed:8 hours ago
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I have never seen so much excitement about listing.

Specially for a small bore (.656” bore) sousaphone. That is NOT a .750 bore York. The ferrules on the slide crooks having a “waist” is a give away.

York-aholic wrote: Mon Jun 08, 2026 1:47 pm

sugawi wrote: Mon Jun 08, 2026 1:24 pm Listed:8 hours ago
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I have never seen so much excitement about listing.

Specially for a small bore (.656” bore) sousaphone. That is NOT a .750 bore York. The ferrules on the slide crooks having a “waist” is a give away.

Same ferrules found on the smaller B&M BBb horns as well. I had a smaller-bore B&M sousaphone that was almost identical.

Model 784
"Junior Sousaphone"
24 inch bell, .654 bore, 3 valves

https://www.yorkloyalist.com/bass-pictu ... tification

Same bore as the Model 33, fwiw.

Must've be relisted because I seem to recall this having been up on reverb for quite awhile, but priced much higher.

I know a lot of folks subscribe to the "bigger is better" philosophy when it comes to sousas but these smaller Yorks play really well and are underrated in my opinion. As already pointed out on this thread, they're essentially a model 33 in sousa-form.

I used to own one some years back. Still had the original case and a replica neck and bits made by Lee Stofer. I still regret letting it go. Lightweight and played a lot bigger than it looked.

*Edit* looks like the neck is not original on this one and the leadpipe/receiver has been replaced to accommodate this neck as well, since it's missing that very distinct neck angle that all the Yorks have.

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tofu wrote: Mon Jun 08, 2026 8:24 pm

MartinMan wrote: Mon Jun 08, 2026 6:18 pm
I know a lot of folks subscribe to the "bigger is better" philosophy when it comes to sousas but these smaller Yorks play really well and are underrated in my opinion. As already pointed out on this thread, they're essentially a model 33 in sousa-form.

Not disagreeing with what you say - but my muni band has a jumbo York. Way back 45 years ago I used to use it when we did parades. We’ve got a set of six matched frosted silver Cleveland White Kings dating from the first one bought by the band back in 1931 and they play great - only used 3-4 times a summer for almost a hundred years they’re literally like new - but that York is one great player and sound. Much older me all these years later - just looks admiringly at it hanging on the wall - with our 9 other band owned sousaphones - thinks about all that weight and instead pulls the primo 1250 King with a 24 in gold washed bell from 1931.

Oh I'm not diminishing how good the larger Yorks are by any means. In fact I had the privilege of playing this one on a gig recently: https://www.tubaforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=14198

They play massive but are indeed heavy as hell.

Very jealous that you had access to a whole fleet of 30s Kings and the monster York. Can't go wrong, there!

Agreed. I was very fond of my York 33.

I cannibalized one of those to build this back in the 90s.




The neck showing is KING.