I just want to thank everyone again for your advice on this thread that I started. And now I want to go full circle because I took the plunge and bought a Miraphone 187-4U today. My "local" Miraphone dealer, a cool 650 miles from home, Taylor Music in Aberdeen, SD kindly prepared the 186, 187, and ...

Thank you all for the great suggestions. This is such a helpful group, with a wealth of information, but then again, we are tuba players, so we have to look out for each other! :tuba:

All of your suggestions give me a lot to contemplate in my planning to acquire a new tuba. Irony abounds as of ...

After a few decades as a lapsed tuba player, I'm getting back into playing, loving it (of course) and would like to upgrade from my very old student model. I'd like to try out a few different options. I'm sort of near Denver, so not near the bigger music stores with stock in tubas, as far as I can ...