St. Pete Horns

[iiipopes]

It is doubtful they will ever make a CC, because their main target is to be a lesser priced BBb. To that end they use a tried and trued, albeit very old, German/Russian design that has been around for decades, some would say centuries, with all of the tooling already in place and depreciated out, so all they have to spend money on besides labor and materials is just the occasional repair on the tooling.

But a little work on the valve design and execution would be nice so you don't have to spend a significant percentage again of the purchase price over time just to keep one playable. But then again, my experience is with only one nickel plated example.

[evan]

About a year ago I was in the Tuba Exchange & Vince brought a prototype St. Petersburg CC out of his office for me to play. I though it played quite well for the few minutes I tried it. It had 4 valves & they were in the process of working with the factory to design a 5th valve.

-Evan

[TubaRay]

Who's on first?

What?

[iiipopes]

Who's on first?

What?

I don't know . . .

http://www.abbottandcostello.net/who.htm
http://www.phoenix5.org/humor/WhoOnFirstTEXT.html

[TubaRay]

What?

I don't know . . .

http://www.abbottandcostello.net/who.htm
http://www.phoenix5.org/humor/WhoOnFirstTEXT.html

To me, that is one of the funnniest comedy routines of all time. Thanks for the links.

[Mike Finn]

Abbott: "He's just trying to find out if St Pete makes CC horns."
Costello: "Who?"
A "St Pete"
C "St Peter makes tubas now?"
A "No, the o.p. is trying to find out if they make CC tubas."
C "Who?'
A "the original poster"
C "St Peter wants an original poster of a tuba?"
A "I'm not askin' ya about an original poster of a tuba, the original poster is askin' about a CC tuba!"
C "I see..."
A "No, A CC !"
C "who?"
A "never mind! he'll just have to call Vince himself since no one here will help"

MF

[tubaguy9]

On the other hand, I have NOT had much luck with my three Mirafone 186's bought in the mid-late 1990's. They have had problems with valve linkage breaking, thumb rings snapping off, and the bells crinkle by just looking at them wrong. Spit valves fall off, etc. I have never had ANY of these issues with the St Pete.
JSeuphonium

Well...Just from what I know, and have learned, the reason for the linkage breaking, I guess that Mirafone has been putting plastic link kind of things in two area, which is why they're weak. Replace them with metal, and they'll be fine...thumb rings...well, I'll say I sorta had that problem, but just have a repair shop put a pair of filet's (please help me if that's the wrong terminology, repairmen!), but that was due to me putting a fair amount of weight on them (carrying it by the ring...that's why) And finally, bell crinkles? You're the only one I've known that has said a bell has crinkled on a Mirafone...
But once again, my 2 cents worth...