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Mirafone recording bell
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 12:51 am
by sugawi
Re: Mirafone recording bell
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 11:13 am
by Dan Schultz
Recording bells are sort of out of vogue but still have a practical purpose for outdoor/oom-pah/Dixieland stuff.
At 19.5".... this one is for a Miraphone 186. That can be further verified by asking the seller if the tenon is 6 5/8" diameter.
Re: Mirafone recording bell
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 5:32 pm
by tofu
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Re: Mirafone recording bell
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 5:25 pm
by Dan Schultz
Upright detachable bells for Miraphone tubas are fairly rare. The bulk of all models of Miraphones I've seen had either a fixed upright bell or a detachable recording bell.
I currently have two Miraphone 186's with detachable recording bells here that came out of a school in North Carolina a while back.
Re: Mirafone recording bell
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 12:55 pm
by Dan Schultz
hrender wrote:TubaTinker wrote:Upright detachable bells for Miraphone tubas are fairly rare. The bulk of all models of Miraphones I've seen had either a fixed upright bell or a detachable recording bell.
His was the only one I've seen with both an upright and a front detachable bell. It's possible it was something other than a Miraphone, although I recall that was what our conductor (also my high school orchestra teacher) said it was when I asked him about it.
Oh... It certainly could have been original. I think the biggest reason why the recording bells were detachable was simply from the transportation/storage point of view.