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FS: 1961 Mirafone 186 BBb 4 Valve Tuba
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 3:03 pm
by b.williams
I am selling a sweet BBb 186.
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Re: FS: 1961 Mirafone 186 BBb 4 Valve Tuba
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 4:56 pm
by bisontuba
Great era of Mirafone 186's....my CC is 15 numbers away from yours...1885...Good luck!!
Re: FS: 1961 Mirafone 186 BBb 4 Valve Tuba
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 8:32 pm
by b.williams
Thank you.
Re: FS: 1961 Mirafone 186 BBb 4 Valve Tuba
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 12:59 am
by bort
Literally...?
Re: FS: 1961 Mirafone 186 BBb 4 Valve Tuba
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 1:26 am
by The Big Ben
GregTuba79 wrote:I also owned a 62' but in BBb..the thing was literally made out of scrap metal from the old German Panzers from WW2 they found abandoned. Great playing horns! Probably the best...
Do tell how you know it was "literally" made from scrapped Panzers.
Re: FS: 1961 Mirafone 186 BBb 4 Valve Tuba
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 8:55 am
by bisontuba
Hi-
When I am home practicing on my old CC Mirafone and the sunlight hits it, I can see the reddish tint in the horn.....I would think your horn, like mine, has very good metal ( more copper) in the brass composition. My horn reminds me of the Alex CC I sold to Dave Kirk after he won the Houston gig....when I would play an outdoor gig on that horn and lay it down on the grass at a break, it looked like a red brass horn against the green grass.
I think it is the 'great' metal in these horns...besides other factors in their construction...that separates the early Mirafones from others with 'that special sound.'
Mark