What's your horn/mouthpiece combo?

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Coincidentally all of that info is in my signature. The Parker rim is a 32 I believe and it has the titanium H-kote.
Hirsbrunner HB50 w/Warburton 30DL
John Packer 377s w/Parker Cantabile
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Meinl Weston Rotary Eflat - AMH signature Mouthpiece

Fafner 195 - PT48
Luft Luft Luft
Wessex Presence CC
Wessex British F
Meinl Weston 2040/5
ZO Thunderbird Custom Bflat
Besson 981 (Sold)
Fafner 195 (Sold)
Et al
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1970s Cerveny Piggy with a PT-36
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Miraphone 1293/Giddings Baer MMVI
Modified Meinl Weston 2165
Willson 3200RZ-5
Holton 345
Holton 350
Bohm & Meinl 5520
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Holton 52 Revelation with:
1921 4v Conn BBb Donatelli
1910s 4v H.N. White Navy BBb Tuba
1919 Martin Mammoth 4v BBb Tuba
1929 Holton Mammoth 3v BBb Tuba
"Tuba is love, tuba is life."
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2011 Yamaha YCB-826 CCWarburton TG-1
1964 Holton 345 CCSchilke SHII-CLE
1971 Mirafone 186-5U CCSellmansberger Symphony (tuba recently sold)
1989 Kurath FSellmansberger Solo (original, single-piece prototype)

These can change (depending on what I am playing), but this is the basic setup I keep returning to.
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Mine has changed since my 2018 posting on p. 5 of this thread.

Now: Červený CBB-601 with a G+W original heavyweight Taku

Loving it.
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1974 (or so) Mirafone 184 4v BBflat
Miraphone TU31 (iirc)
Miraphone C4 (iirc)
Sellmansberger Orchestra Grand (currently my go-to)
(And maybe 5 others that don't get used much)
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B&S MRP Rotary, Laskey 30 and 28 G w/ American shanks
Yamaha 822 F, Yamaha Bobo Solo
Mirafone Elektra, RT-64s
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Dillon 6/4 BB flat, Laskey 30B
Eastman 836 6/4 CC, Laskey 30H
B&S, pre-PT 3 CC, Laskey 30G
Miraphone Petruschka, Shallowberger
G&P F cimbasso, Shallowberger
Shires Q40, Schilke 51D
Shires Q Series Bass Trombone, Shires 1 1/4G
Bach 42b, Greg Black 4g-5g
Doug Black, D.M.A.
Assistant Professor of Music, Alabama A&M University
Eastman Tuba Artist
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