I'm certain it is very much like yours.

Okay, so I have been salvaging my old TN thread on the two 186 tubas. One day (I hope) it will be refined and cleaned up enough to post it as a PDF file for anyone who wants to read it. For now, it is unavailable, so this thread will be ONLY about the CC tuba. The BBb 186 will have its own thread ...

Oh, and the restored 1971 186 was a big hit with the trombones and trumpets. Our horns never care about stuff like that, though. They are too busy chatting about "horn stuff" to bother. Heh, heh, heh… It's great you got to play. I'm not surprised about their reaction to the Miraphone. That vintage c ...

Happy birthday to our favorite company in Waldkraiburg, Germany! MIRAPHONE — October 13, 1946 :thumbsup: :clap: :cheers: Since December of 1979, I have always had a Miraphone tuba to play. Some were issued to me by a school or the military. Some were (or are) owned by me. I love this company not o ...

Toby, this will be long, and it covers some information about Chinese tubas and their importers, and it covers my opinions about a cheap 186 CC and how to work that into your life. First, it is not a re-branded Schiller . It is a Jin Bao. Jim Laabs Music (Schiller) imports the same, exact horn as M ...

The above photo was taken later in the evening when the rain sort of cleared up and we were long gone. (I snagged if from the MSO Facebook page.) Here are two more from the same page posted this morning. Both are from before we started, so no crowd, and "unauthorized" visitors on the balcony with us ...

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You're a lucky guy, Mark. Very nice tuba! Congratulations!

Tonight part of the MSO's brass section performed on the balcony outside Thalia Mara Hall. The string section performed a socially distant concert to a socially distant audience of a surprisingly large size, pretty much maxing out what we could safely get into the 2,400+ seat "barn" where we work. I ...

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Yorkboy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 9:17 pm*

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Claiming that one is not allowed to do something is a common way to cover up the fact that one does not *want* to do it.

People pass that buck on up to their bosses and go back to reading their phones.

<sigh>

I hope you get whatever it is that you need soon, man.

The order had originally been placed pre-covid and then delayed because of the lock-downs there. I had one order from Miraphone placed in February that did not arrive until the middle of May, but the order I made in May arrived something like three days BEFORE the one made in February. I suspect ...

I have been receiving parcels from Mirahone through the pandemic, since about late June. They go by air but have a quarantine of about two weeks in Miami before USPS gets them. It is taking a lot longer for DHL to get them through their Frankfurt and Hamburg portals, probably for a similar ...

I just couldn't figure out why the first valve needed to be turned backwards. I think it came with a left-hand 5th lever, so the valve was pointed backward, as it the norm for such a setup. I am guessing that MW then sold the owner a retro-fitted 5th lever for the right thumb that ran behind the ...

Wade, I'm trying to figure out the valves. Can you explain how the arrangement worked? The 5th slide was shortened to be a 1st and physically did not get relocated. The original 1st was removed and 2/3/4 were detached from the bugle as an assembly and moved up. New braces were used where needed ...

Regarding the "abomination" crack, This was one of the best tubas I have ever played. I was still four years from dropping the money to set up my shop, and this horn had a LOT of physical issues but played very well. Had I been tooled up I would probably still own it. But alas, it was not to be, heh ...

Sold.

Yeah, I missed out on this one. Rats.

I am about to start selling my arrangements. I am about to start building tubas and selling them. I am about to re-start my former lucrative selling of refurbished student instruments. This time I am doubling down on woodwinds now that I am good at them. I have about ten tubas in addition to about ...

Thank you for all your work, Dave. I snagged a copy to use as my desktop photo. The clarity *is* very nice!