What is the big tuba?

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What is the big tuba?

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Hello,

Anyone know what the horn is or the showroom's location, please?

One guy is faking it since he has no mouthpiece.

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It's a Miraphone 186. The two men are just really small.
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There's an old thread about this instrument:

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=49840
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I could have swore it was the Harvard BBBb for a second there....
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It seems to be the biggest playable tuba in the world, as german newspapers wrote. The guy in pic 1 is the one that made the tuba, guy in pic 2 is the one that played it in concert. Watch a video on the buildig process of the tuba here (unfortunately only in german):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHIwfWavIm4
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Dean E wrote:Hello,

Anyone know what the horn is or the showroom's location, please?

One guy is faking it since he has no mouthpiece.

Dean E
The first pic is of the builder of the tuba, Hartmut Geilert. The second pic is of the guy who premiered it, Jorg Wachsmuth. It is the 'Riesentuba', a gigantic BBBb tuba.
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Dean E wrote:or the showroom's location
The tuba is located in the museum of musical instruments in Markneukirchen, Germany.

http://www.museum-markneukirchen.de/
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The tuba is set to be displayed as part of the Musikmesse festival in Frankfurt, between 10-13 April.
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