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I'm having trouble figuring out what kind of tuba this is. Based on the size of the person playing it, it looks like a large one, but it doesn't line up with anything I'm familiar with. MA

Looks like it could be a Mira. 191...But I dunno...

I don't think it's a 191. That one is a diet BAT!


I don't think this is it, but it looks somewhat like a Yamaha YCB-861. The leadpipe and 5th valve tubing is different, but that 4th valve tubing looks Yamaha.

Part of the wrap reminds me of the small 3/4 F by miraphone....but I'm not really positive since it's so big......but she could be small!

Look at the 5th valve slide and wrap...it goes up kinda high...reminds me of my cerveny.

Is the 5th valve rotor paddle behind that tubing??? That might be a clue too.

Based on the position of the hands, I'd guess that the 5th valve is a right hand thumb-operated, and then it has to be behind the tubing.

MA

It's a Meinl-Weston 182.

UncleBeer wrote:It's a Meinl-Weston 182.

AH HA!!!!! I didn't mean Miraphone..sheesh....this is the horn I meant...well done.

Only the pic is obviously the 4+1 rather than the 5in-line from the original posters photo.

bravo

Kind of spooky when somebody posts a photo of herself and asks what kind of tuba she plays, when she often referred to that instrument by its model #.

K

Well, yeah, but don't you think it ruins the perspective? I mean, context is everything.

MA

If that is what you expected, now THAT is scary. And it's almost Halloween too.....

Just having a little fun. I figure if I'm going to troll, I should do it as myself.

M "you never thought a 182 would look big" A

I don't know about the tuba or MA....but that is one short chair.

heh. borrowed that specifically for this pic....it is a kiddie chair

and BTW that is a euph mpc, 6 1/2 AL IIRC. Couldn't find a way to make the paddles look smaller though.

I figure a pic of me with a 6/4 BBb and Bob1062 with a 3/4 Eb ought to be the epitome of a Mutt and Jeff scenario. Most people would accuse a "straight" pic of being photoshopped, for that combo, especially if we could do it with tubas of very simlar wrap.

MA

Bob1062 wrote:Since I suppose we're doing pictures of funny sized people holding funny sized tubas, here's me with my old Conn stencil Eb (and a REALLY stupid face, for whatever reason). The horn is about the size of a 621-

Hey, Bob! You look like you're playing a euph . . .

jonesbrass wrote:

Bob1062 wrote:Since I suppose we're doing pictures of funny sized people holding funny sized tubas, here's me with my old Conn stencil Eb (and a REALLY stupid face, for whatever reason). The horn is about the size of a 621-

Hey, Bob! You look like you're playing a euph . . .

You almost stole my line:

Do euphs come in Eb now?

For a guy born in 1062 he looks pretty young and stoned. Only musicians would know that the stoned part comes from reading music placed uncomfortably for the eyes.

K

Anyone else with those horns like to post pics for size comparisons?

Nick Pierce wrote:Anyone else with those horns like to post pics for size comparisons?

This seems to be a picture of a 2165 next to a 182. Some of the routing seems different on the 182, so this may have been a prototype.

UncleBeer wrote:

Nick Pierce wrote:Anyone else with those horns like to post pics for size comparisons?

This seems to be a picture of a 2165 next to a 182. Some of the routing seems different on the 182, so this may have been a prototype.

Is that a rotary 2165?

Sure seems to be (I hadn't even noticed!). The picture's tag is "2165Z", so it musta been a 'black project'.

Here's the source of the picture : http://www.melton.de/blech/182.htm" target="_blank

UncleBeer wrote:

Nick Pierce wrote:Anyone else with those horns like to post pics for size comparisons?

This seems to be a picture of a 2165 next to a 182. Some of the routing seems different on the 182, so this may have been a prototype.

The bell on that one seems to flare out more quickly (i.e., less of a "stovepipe" look) and so I wonder.

MA

I'd guess a MW F tuba.