comparison: Miraphone and Melton (M-W) 1960's kaiser baritons

[bloke]

I just finished straightening out this had-previously-seen-better days eBay treasure (Miraphone) for a close friend of mine.
I didn't charge him (though I did a bunch of work on it) because...
- He GAVE me a good-valves Bohemian (albeit beat-up, but shiny) 4-rotor B-flat that he picked up - when he drove off somewhere to pick up some other instrument that he had bought.
- He ran into a deer (on the way to a gig, a couple of days ago) tore up his car pretty badly, and only has liability insurance on that car.

Typical of Miraphone, it's taller, narrower, and brighter-sounding.
Typical of Melton, it's shorter, wider, and broader-sounding.
(Both are VERY tall, compared to ANY compensating euphonium.)

Tuning with both is slightly quirky, but (in my experience) no more quirky than most any "euphonium".
Both can easily be played in tune.
Ignore the extra accessories that I've loaded on to my M-W...Those things can be added to any of these instruments.
odd: a 1960's Miraphone kaiser bariton with an ADJUSTABLE thumb ring

[bloke]

Yeah… There’s other work that I could’ve done during that two hour morning (prior to both of us having to run off to separate matinee performances), but I was visiting with my friend - while slicking out his recent acquisition, and also consoling him about his bad luck (on the highway with his uninsured-for-collisions car).

[bloke]

Here's a little facebook video of my friend playing a (*Scottish?) song on his new-to-him 1960's Miraphone kaiser baritone - after I hurriedly un-crushed it, and "got them valves and linkages to workin' and not clankin' "...

It's a T-A-L-L instrument...He himself is c. 6' tall...

https://www.facebook.com/eduarbone/vide ... 2840694314

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*Scottish folk, I don't believe, don't know a whole lot about "D-flat major", so it's PROBABLY (??) C-major (bagpipe "high-pitch" tuning), correct?