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My Tuba Family The current stable comprises seven horns, some too new for this picture. Each has a story.
At least the stories are interesting to me. The big boy on the left is a Miraphone 186-4U BBb contrabass tuba. Miraphones are sort of out-of-fashion these days, for some reason. I don't care. This is one of the best BBb 4/4 German-style horns ever made, to my ears anyway. The story of this horn is in the trading I had to do to get it. I started with a Besson Stratford, given me by a band director who thought it would be easier than hauling it to the dumpster.
Mirafone serial number unlisted? I am currently testing a Mirafone (Miraphone) euphonium for the weekend. The owner claims its model to be a 16940, but I believe that to be a serial number.
I'd fixed up that old Besson, with leadpipe mods and shortened tuning slides so that it had a hope of playing in tune some of the time. In its modified state, it was worth slightly more than junk, and I traded it for a cheapie valve trombone. I traded that for a like-new Musica F tuba at an unlikely Army surplus store in San Antonio, Texas. Musica was an instrument maker in Austria who assembled parts made usually by Czech companies.
This one bore details extremely similar to Cerveny and Amati tubas of the 1980's. It was a typical small German-style F tuba, okay in the high register but a real oinker down low. In the meantime, I'd purchased a Sanders BBb as a demonstrator. This horn was a stencil name of Custom Music Company, and was made by the Amati Group in Czeckoslovakia before the fall of the Iron Curtain. Cerveny horns of the same vintage are identical. That horn was a lot better than its price tag indicated, with a large bore and light, hollow rotary valves. But it wasn't durable, and it collected several dents while I owned it.
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I had also built a tuning stick to fix some of its more interesting intonation problems. One of my section mates in a band wanted to switch to CC, and he had his eye on a brand-new VMI (in their first year in the U.S.). But he didn't have the scratch. He wanted to trade his Miraphone BBb for the VMI, but I told him that two horns would make better trade fodder than one.
I said, 'If you are going to be dissatisfied with a BBb anyway, you might as well be dissatisfied with my Sanders, plus my Musica F (I had already bought the Yamaha F by that time), and let me have your Miraphone. When it comes time to trade, you'll do just as well, and you'll know how to play F tuba.' To my surprise, he bit hard on that bait, and we did the trade. But the Miraphone was tired and in need of an overhaul. The valve linkages were clattery, and the horn was dented in many places. I was quite happy to own it, though. A Miraphone had been a dream instrument in my school days, and I finally had one.
Tolerating its many problems was just the price to be paid. I immediately built ball-and-socket linkages for it (as I have on many horns for myself and others). Then I had the opportunity to try out a new horn being imported by Orpheus Music when they still carried tubas.
It was a Vespro, and even though it came at a lower price point than a Miraphone, it was an endearing instrument for a player like me. Printmaster 18 windows 10 compatibility. It had many fewer problems than the Miraphone, though it required a tuning stick for the C and D on the staff, which I later built.
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My Tuba Family The current stable comprises seven horns, some too new for this picture. Each has a story.
At least the stories are interesting to me. The big boy on the left is a Miraphone 186-4U BBb contrabass tuba. Miraphones are sort of out-of-fashion these days, for some reason. I don\'t care. This is one of the best BBb 4/4 German-style horns ever made, to my ears anyway. The story of this horn is in the trading I had to do to get it. I started with a Besson Stratford, given me by a band director who thought it would be easier than hauling it to the dumpster.
Mirafone serial number unlisted? I am currently testing a Mirafone (Miraphone) euphonium for the weekend. The owner claims its model to be a 16940, but I believe that to be a serial number.
I\'d fixed up that old Besson, with leadpipe mods and shortened tuning slides so that it had a hope of playing in tune some of the time. In its modified state, it was worth slightly more than junk, and I traded it for a cheapie valve trombone. I traded that for a like-new Musica F tuba at an unlikely Army surplus store in San Antonio, Texas. Musica was an instrument maker in Austria who assembled parts made usually by Czech companies.
This one bore details extremely similar to Cerveny and Amati tubas of the 1980\'s. It was a typical small German-style F tuba, okay in the high register but a real oinker down low. In the meantime, I\'d purchased a Sanders BBb as a demonstrator. This horn was a stencil name of Custom Music Company, and was made by the Amati Group in Czeckoslovakia before the fall of the Iron Curtain. Cerveny horns of the same vintage are identical. That horn was a lot better than its price tag indicated, with a large bore and light, hollow rotary valves. But it wasn\'t durable, and it collected several dents while I owned it.
Watch Indian TV Serials, Online Movies, Live Sports Updates, Original Shows, Music| Sony LIV. Hanuman serial on sony tv.
I had also built a tuning stick to fix some of its more interesting intonation problems. One of my section mates in a band wanted to switch to CC, and he had his eye on a brand-new VMI (in their first year in the U.S.). But he didn\'t have the scratch. He wanted to trade his Miraphone BBb for the VMI, but I told him that two horns would make better trade fodder than one.
I said, \'If you are going to be dissatisfied with a BBb anyway, you might as well be dissatisfied with my Sanders, plus my Musica F (I had already bought the Yamaha F by that time), and let me have your Miraphone. When it comes time to trade, you\'ll do just as well, and you\'ll know how to play F tuba.\' To my surprise, he bit hard on that bait, and we did the trade. But the Miraphone was tired and in need of an overhaul. The valve linkages were clattery, and the horn was dented in many places. I was quite happy to own it, though. A Miraphone had been a dream instrument in my school days, and I finally had one.
Tolerating its many problems was just the price to be paid. I immediately built ball-and-socket linkages for it (as I have on many horns for myself and others). Then I had the opportunity to try out a new horn being imported by Orpheus Music when they still carried tubas.
It was a Vespro, and even though it came at a lower price point than a Miraphone, it was an endearing instrument for a player like me. Printmaster 18 windows 10 compatibility. It had many fewer problems than the Miraphone, though it required a tuning stick for the C and D on the staff, which I later built.
...'>Miraphone Serial Numbers(04.01.2019)My Tuba Family The current stable comprises seven horns, some too new for this picture. Each has a story.
At least the stories are interesting to me. The big boy on the left is a Miraphone 186-4U BBb contrabass tuba. Miraphones are sort of out-of-fashion these days, for some reason. I don\'t care. This is one of the best BBb 4/4 German-style horns ever made, to my ears anyway. The story of this horn is in the trading I had to do to get it. I started with a Besson Stratford, given me by a band director who thought it would be easier than hauling it to the dumpster.
Mirafone serial number unlisted? I am currently testing a Mirafone (Miraphone) euphonium for the weekend. The owner claims its model to be a 16940, but I believe that to be a serial number.
I\'d fixed up that old Besson, with leadpipe mods and shortened tuning slides so that it had a hope of playing in tune some of the time. In its modified state, it was worth slightly more than junk, and I traded it for a cheapie valve trombone. I traded that for a like-new Musica F tuba at an unlikely Army surplus store in San Antonio, Texas. Musica was an instrument maker in Austria who assembled parts made usually by Czech companies.
This one bore details extremely similar to Cerveny and Amati tubas of the 1980\'s. It was a typical small German-style F tuba, okay in the high register but a real oinker down low. In the meantime, I\'d purchased a Sanders BBb as a demonstrator. This horn was a stencil name of Custom Music Company, and was made by the Amati Group in Czeckoslovakia before the fall of the Iron Curtain. Cerveny horns of the same vintage are identical. That horn was a lot better than its price tag indicated, with a large bore and light, hollow rotary valves. But it wasn\'t durable, and it collected several dents while I owned it.
Watch Indian TV Serials, Online Movies, Live Sports Updates, Original Shows, Music| Sony LIV. Hanuman serial on sony tv.
I had also built a tuning stick to fix some of its more interesting intonation problems. One of my section mates in a band wanted to switch to CC, and he had his eye on a brand-new VMI (in their first year in the U.S.). But he didn\'t have the scratch. He wanted to trade his Miraphone BBb for the VMI, but I told him that two horns would make better trade fodder than one.
I said, \'If you are going to be dissatisfied with a BBb anyway, you might as well be dissatisfied with my Sanders, plus my Musica F (I had already bought the Yamaha F by that time), and let me have your Miraphone. When it comes time to trade, you\'ll do just as well, and you\'ll know how to play F tuba.\' To my surprise, he bit hard on that bait, and we did the trade. But the Miraphone was tired and in need of an overhaul. The valve linkages were clattery, and the horn was dented in many places. I was quite happy to own it, though. A Miraphone had been a dream instrument in my school days, and I finally had one.
Tolerating its many problems was just the price to be paid. I immediately built ball-and-socket linkages for it (as I have on many horns for myself and others). Then I had the opportunity to try out a new horn being imported by Orpheus Music when they still carried tubas.
It was a Vespro, and even though it came at a lower price point than a Miraphone, it was an endearing instrument for a player like me. Printmaster 18 windows 10 compatibility. It had many fewer problems than the Miraphone, though it required a tuning stick for the C and D on the staff, which I later built.
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