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Miraphone Viennese tuba
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2020 12:10 am
by vandoeduardo
Has anyone ever seen one of those?
I don't have much details about it, just know that its 123 on Left hand, and 654 on right.
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Re: Miraphone Viennese tuba
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2020 3:03 pm
by cjk
Iirc, Sam Gnagey used to have one of these and post on tubenet about it. Maybe he still has it?
Re: Miraphone Viennese tuba
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:08 am
by vandoeduardo
bloke wrote:The person who originally started the thread seems to be more interested in the plumbing, whereas everyone else seems more interested in the tuba.
Not exactly.
bloke wrote:It looks to me to be (as with some other Vienna-set-up tubas) a special version of a manufacturer's standard model...in this case, a model 80.
Nice to know. I had no idea which model it could be. If I get to buy it (I'm still negotiating it with the seller), I'll try to find out it's manufacturing year...
russiantuba wrote:A Miraphone 180F--I owned one with a dual 5th valve and miss that horn a bit.
Nice to know! This one I think it has 4, 5 and 6.
Re: Miraphone Viennese tuba
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2020 2:19 pm
by Tom
The only other 3+3 Mirafone F that I have ever seen is a photo in a recently uploaded Mirafone catalog from 1984:
https://www.horn-u-copia.net/library.shtml
Scroll down.
Re: Miraphone Viennese tuba
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2020 2:29 pm
by vandoeduardo
bloke wrote:Knowing a manufacturing year, is interesting, but I've never bought a used instrument (and I've only rarely bought new ones and a crazy-long list of used ones) knowing the year of it's manufacture...and I've never grabbed my phone to look the year up - prior to a purchase.
Ohh, of course! Knowing the instrument has a good intonation, the year won't affect the purchase (or not) of the tuba...
Tom wrote:The only other 3+3 Mirafone F that I have ever seen is a photo in a recently uploaded Mirafone catalog from 1984:
Thank you!