Piston Miraphone 186

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Re: Piston Miraphone 186

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bort2.0 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 11, 2022 9:25 pm …
The ferrules on your tuba look sort of like a Rudy Meinl to me. I'll have to dig up an OLD photo of an OLD Miraphone 186 to see if it looks like your ferrules.
There are a couple of pictures in this thread (page 6 for those of us with 20 posts per page) /viewtopic.php?t=1017&start=100 of 1965 Miraphone posts and a ferrule. Are you thinking even older than that?


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Re: Piston Miraphone 186

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jtm wrote: ↑Mon Jul 11, 2022 11:59 pm
bort2.0 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 11, 2022 9:25 pm …
The ferrules on your tuba look sort of like a Rudy Meinl to me. I'll have to dig up an OLD photo of an OLD Miraphone 186 to see if it looks like your ferrules.
There are a couple of pictures in this thread (page 6 for those of us with 20 posts per page) /viewtopic.php?t=1017&start=100 of 1965 Miraphone posts and a ferrule. Are you thinking even older than that?
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Not mine, but a photo of one for sale last year sometime. Guessing early 60s or earlier. Check out the funky tension adjustment, and also the overall shape of the horn.

But... Ferrules don't match the OP's photo. They really look Rudy to me, although I'm sure other German makers might have used the same style.
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Re: Piston Miraphone 186

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surely a former Holton recording bass with one of those Miraphone for-US-export 20-inch bells stuck on it.
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