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Re: Canadian Brass
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2026 7:51 am
I don’t think it’s a 2341 body. The valve tubing layout is different, 4th especially.
Re: Canadian Brass
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2026 8:34 am
Yamaha YCB-621 I think
Re: Canadian Brass
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2026 8:35 am
Another thread on here listed all his horns and some history. :
https://www.tubaforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=1309
https://www.tubaforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=1309
Re: Canadian Brass
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2026 8:41 am
Definitely a YCB-621, and according to the bio on Canadian Brass's website, the bell is carbon fiber (or carbon-fibre if you're Canadian).
Chuck and his gold-plated & carbon-fibre tuba are the bedrock of the massive Canadian Brass repertoire – from Baroque to jazz.
Re: Canadian Brass
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2026 9:31 am
I saw them and got to meet them....err...well Chuck anyway...back in the mid 90s. In the summers of high school, I attended the Usdan Center for Creative and Performing Arts. The Canadian Brass performed and worked with the brass students a couple of years I was there. I miss those days....you have no idea.
Re: Canadian Brass
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2026 3:41 pm
When I went to Purdue the grad student band department assistant was also a tuba player. He told me he saw Chuck wandering around campus, went up to him and said "Mr. Daellenbach, you look lost, can I help you?". To which Chuck stared at him and replied "how do you know who I am"? "I'm a tuba player sir". 
Is there a list of what he's played over the years? I remember he played a rotary Yamaha C, a 661 I believe; I have a cassette of their French album that I think he played that on. I knew a gentleman who owned his Thein contrabass trombone, Art Linsner who iirc played with the Chicago Lyric.
Is there a list of what he's played over the years? I remember he played a rotary Yamaha C, a 661 I believe; I have a cassette of their French album that I think he played that on. I knew a gentleman who owned his Thein contrabass trombone, Art Linsner who iirc played with the Chicago Lyric.
Re: Canadian Brass
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2026 4:27 pm
When I started listening to them, I think he was on something akin to a Yamaha 621CC. He played a Getzen CB50 for a bit. I've given up trying to figure out what is more recent instruments have been. They look like they are pieced together in the Conn factory.
I think he played a Miraphone 184 way back in the day.
I think he played a Miraphone 184 way back in the day.
Re: Canadian Brass
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2026 7:24 pm
Dude could play a garden hose and sound great, sure hope he's ok, falls at our age can be tough
Re: Canadian Brass
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2026 6:29 am
Snapped a pick of Chuck's axe in the case after the Baltimore gig earlier this year (we did the reception afterwards)
(Had to edit out what is presumably Chucks phone #, scrawled in silver sharpie under something resembling his name).
(Had to edit out what is presumably Chucks phone #, scrawled in silver sharpie under something resembling his name).
Re: Canadian Brass
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2026 3:29 pm
There is an old Sesame Street video of Chuck playing that Yamaha 661 -- I'm thinking late 1970s / early 1980s. We know of the various 3/4 Yamaha 621/Schilke tubas, and the Getzen CB-50 tubas. But he seemed to have a bunch of one-off/custom tubas made for him over the years that were never sold as production models.Bob Kolada wrote: Tue Jun 09, 2026 3:41 pm
Is there a list of what he's played over the years? I remember he played a rotary Yamaha C, a 661 I believe; I have a cassette of their French album that I think he played that on.
On the CB "Red Hot Jazz" album he is seen with a 4v version of the YCB-822, but with the smaller YFB-822 body, yet pitched in CC. Also, on the CB "Noel" album, he is holding a CB/G-50 esqe tuba with a weird valveset wrap. I'm thinking those were one-off/custom tubas that were never production horns. Both horns may have been prototypes for what became the YCB-822, and G-50? Who knows. Both albums were from the 1990s.
And of course the various carbon-fiber bell tubas he has used over the years.
Re: Canadian Brass
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2026 12:51 am
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Re: Canadian Brass
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2026 12:58 am
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Re: Canadian Brass
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2026 3:36 pm
catgrowlB wrote: Wed Jun 10, 2026 3:29 pmThere is an old Sesame Street video of Chuck playing that Yamaha 661 -- I'm thinking late 1970s / early 1980s. We know of the various 3/4 Yamaha 621/Schilke tubas, and the Getzen CB-50 tubas. But he seemed to have a bunch of one-off/custom tubas made for him over the years that were never sold as production models.Bob Kolada wrote: Tue Jun 09, 2026 3:41 pm
Is there a list of what he's played over the years? I remember he played a rotary Yamaha C, a 661 I believe; I have a cassette of their French album that I think he played that on.
On the CB "Red Hot Jazz" album he is seen with a 4v version of the YCB-822, but with the smaller YFB-822 body, yet pitched in CC. Also, on the CB "Noel" album, he is holding a CB/G-50 esqe tuba with a weird valveset wrap. I'm thinking those were one-off/custom tubas that were never production horns. Both horns may have been prototypes for what became the YCB-822, and G-50? Who knows. Both albums were from the 1990s.
And of course the various carbon-fiber bell tubas he has used over the years.
Neat, looks quasi 3J-ish