Chuck Daellenbach

[MStarke]

I saw Canadian Brass yesterday evening in Hamburg, Germany. Phenomenal show and really great playing from all 5.

I am a trombonist/partly euphonium player and don't know much about tubas.

Chuck Daellenbach sounded great on his carbon fibre bell tuba. I was wondering if the bell proportions of his instrument are somewhat special? I really have no clue, but to me it looked like a relatively lean bell throat with a comparably large flare at the end.

[Snake Charmer]

Chuck's tuba is still the old Getzen G 50 design (it was for two years available as Canadian Brass CB-50), which he is playing for decades now, after the 1970s Yamaha sponsorship ended. The carbon fibre bell was his wish for reducing weight for the amazing stage show.

[MStarke]

Thanks for the insights!

To me it just looked unusual - probably also because I normally only see rotary F anc Bb tubas here in Germany.
I thought it looked relatively small, but sounded surprisingly full.
Overall it was really impressive how Chuck is cotinueing to play at this extremely high level!

But as said, I have no clue about tubas.