Why hasn't anyone, other than Miraphone, cut down a 186 BBb?

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Re: Why hasn't anyone, other than Miraphone, cut down a 186

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Art Hovey wrote:Seems to me that there are some Chinese-made CC 186 clones that also play pretty well.

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Re: Why hasn't anyone, other than Miraphone, cut down a 186

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bloke wrote:All joking aside...
If someone were to cut a 186Bb to C, match up the tapers, and replace the mouthpipe and tuning slide dogleg with the C parts from Miraphone, and shorten the valveset, I'd wager that it would play just fine.
There's the answer to your original question. I don't think I would make the investment into the leadpipe and dogleg just to reinvent a Miraphone. Of course... if there was a dramatic improvement over a REAL Miraphone CC... it might make sense.
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Re: Why hasn't anyone, other than Miraphone, cut down a 186

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Maybe they are perfect!?
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Re: Why hasn't anyone, other than Miraphone, cut down a 186

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If Arnold Jacobs were to have had a 6/4 rotary miraphone during his time with Chicago, I'm sure we would see more people doing this to try and get that "classic dark Grand Rapids miraphone sound" ;)
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