Miraphone BBb 186 Millennium Edition with gold bell

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Miraphone BBb 186 Millennium Edition with gold bell

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Re: Miraphone BBb 186 Millennium Edition with gold bell

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Very pretty! Any other differences besides the gold brass bell?
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Re: Miraphone BBb 186 Millennium Edition with gold bell

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the elephant wrote:Why does it have "Mirafone" if it is from 2000? I thought that was only used in the early days for US-market tubas due to a legal restriction on the name Miraphone and that this stopped in the late 1970s.
The serial number on the bell certainly seems to be from the "F" era... and the Millennium engraving certainly looks more recent.

Another oddity... didn't the millennium start on Jan 1, 2001? So does this commemorate the outgoing millennium?

PS -- none of this really matters, should be an outstanding tuba either way!
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