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[bububassboner]

Good day,
I'm looking into possibly getting a miraphone 184 or 185 CC to use instead of a German rotor F tuba. I have never really had either in my hands before and was hoping to get some pictures of a 184/185 next to any F tuba for size comparison.

Thank you in advance.

(If any of you have used these horns as your bass tuba I would love to hear how that worked for you)

[Gravid]

Here's a pic of my Mir 184 (lower) next to my B&S Symphonie F. As you can see, they are pretty much identical in size. I no longer own either horn, but each was an above-average tool, IMO. The 184 made a dandy quintet horn, though by the time I started using it as such, I was already longing for something on the "beefier" side (i.e., my old Getzen/CB-50). The F was just downright special, as evidenced by the fact that I only recently got around to selling it (even though I haven't considered myself a "tuba player" for over 4 years now). I tried to get by w/only a 4/4 CC and an older 184 (in place of an F) for my 1st year of graduate study, many moons ago. The advice I received was basically, "You're fine having the 184 (in place of the F), as long as you can do everything the other folks do on their F tuba, but better." So, I spent some serious time w/my Torchinsky/Berlioz excerpt book. Not long afterward, I went shopping for an F tuba (thanks, Doc Young). Hope this helps.