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Anybody around Atlanta have a Mirafone 185 CC and wouldn't mind letting me toot on it for 20 minutes or so?

I'm also looking to try a Dillon G3 or G5 mouthpiece if anybody local has one of those.

You'd be more than welcome to try any of my horns or mouthpieces or I'd be more than happy to buy you an adult beverage.



Thanks!

Christian

surely somebody 'round these parts has a 185???

Hey,
I know Kenyon Wilson has a 188, but he has moved up to Trenton GA near Chattanooga. I don't know anyone in town who has one (or even a miraphone for that matter) {Not a diss, just what I've noticed}
Bill

Strange, the best 185 I ever played was owned by the Ground Forces Band. I used it a couple of times in gigs @ Atlanta in the early 90's. Had a great Anvil case for it, too. I even have a picture of me playing it at the Fox Theater, "Annie" I think. Must have been sold off. Lee Stofer kept it in top shape and it was Clay Abernathy's main horn there. The band also had two great HB-21's, a piston and rotor version along with THE best Conn 20K I ever played, an old brass one that rocked. Probably all long gone. Too bad, my Mom always said she kept me in tubas as long as she paid taxes. Funny how that works, isn't it.

Chuck"who has fond memories of being stationed there from 1989-1992 and who took a reverse course of Tubadork and went to Korea AFTER that"Jackson

When I was there we had 2 PT6P's that were not great representations of B&S horns, a 5/4 Rudy that I swear had a leak of some sort in it, an HB something or other (rotar) that was in really bad shape (and I think it's not there anymore) a Rudy F tuba (that Lee Stofer is selling now) 2 Besson Sheridan E flats and 2 Besson Bb's that we couldn't get rid of as much as we tried, and 4 silver 20k's that were sousaphones. But, it's been a while and I think they got in a Miraphone F (not the firebird, the older one, I think the 181) and they have ordered 2 fafners.
Bill "I went to Korea after Ft. Mac and that's why I'm a civilian" Pritchard

The Army still loves you

cjk wrote: I'd be more than happy to buy you an adult beverage.



Thanks!

Christian

What are we talkin' - Metamucil? You know, I think you and I are the same age, dude. Good luck with that.....:0)
Seriously, though- You could drive up to Miraphone heaven, a.k.a. Cookeville and get a lesson with Professor Morris. I think he has a tricked-out, souped-up, not-street-legal 185.

jtuba wrote:The Army still loves you

Yeah, I know, but I had to call off the relationship.
Hope the School is treating you well.
Bill

Ok ok,

This would be an adult beverage for Bill:




And this one's for father Sean: