Facebook: Silver Miraphone 184 CC

[gocsick]

https://www.facebook.com/share/1Gv1UT76d2/

[tofu]

Must be the season of mid 70’s silver Miraphones that are in time capsule shape. Looks in very nice condition. I have to wonder though how likely their $9,500 price is going to find a buyer for a horn with 50 year old valves.

[Mary Ann]

Is this person dreaming, or can this be sold for that amount of money? Who knows what the intonation characteristics are.

[arpthark]

Is this person dreaming, or can this be sold for that amount of money? Who knows what the intonation characteristics are.

I feel like this is the second time I’ve seen this one on the market for a similar amount of money, so at least one person bought it for that amount.

[PRO]

Is this person dreaming, or can this be sold for that amount of money? Who knows what the intonation characteristics are.

I feel like this is the second time I’ve seen this one on the market for a similar amount of money, so at least one person bought it for that amount.

Possibly it did not sell first time around.

[arpthark]

Is this person dreaming, or can this be sold for that amount of money? Who knows what the intonation characteristics are.

I feel like this is the second time I’ve seen this one on the market for a similar amount of money, so at least one person bought it for that amount.

Possibly it did not sell first time around.

Different sellers.

[Mary Ann]

Possibly it did not sell first time around.

Different sellers.

And that gives the answer -- previous buyer may have found he made an oops and is trying to recover.

[prodigal]

I mean, I love an old Mirafone, but $9500 for a 184?

Am I being cheap or realistic?

[Casca Grossa]

I mean, I love an old Mirafone, but $9500 for a 184?

Am I being cheap or realistic?

I'm contemplating selling mine for $3,800. Maybe I am grossly undervaluing mine. Mine is not silver plate though.

[humBell]

Possibly it did not sell first time around.

Different sellers.

And that gives the answer -- previous buyer may have found he made an oops and is trying to recover.

Possible it isn't even an oops.

Perhaps they just got their hands on tuba they like better (eg. a silver 186 in another thread) , and no long need the 184?

Also an unusually high price may be more of " id on't wish to sell it, but this is what it would take for me to sell it.

[arpthark]

@humBell can always find the upside.

(It’s usually the side with the bell sticking out.)

[bloke]

The 1970's non-F-tuba-players' (or people who didn't like fooling with the F tubas available at at that time) F tubas...and then - in the late 70's and 1980's - B&S F instruments began showing up in the USA.

These days, there are some Miraphone-made almost-4/4 models of B-flats (some that they never made many of, and others which are more recently developed) which are "more resonant" (read: "potentially louder"), and innately play considerably more well in tune.

[tubanh84]

I love my 184, but it's a beast to play.

It usually takes me a solid hour to get sorted on it and play it how I want. It takes more air than a horn its size seems like it should. The intonation takes some work. Articulation is hard to smooth out (usually it smooths out with the intonation getting locked in).

But. After an hour, it's wonderful. Singing tone. Crazy flexibility. Poppy pedal register.

It's definitely a hobby horn. Not one I'd want to have to rely on to play gigs every day. But as a hobby horn, I love it. And as I've said before, after an hour on the 184, I can't miss on my Gnagey.

[bloke]

I love my 184, but it's a beast to play.

It usually takes me a solid hour to get sorted on it and play it how I want. It takes more air than a horn its size seems like it should. The intonation takes some work. Articulation is hard to smooth out (usually it smooths out with the intonation getting locked in).

But. After an hour, it's wonderful. Singing tone. Crazy flexibility. Poppy pedal register.

It's definitely a hobby horn. Not one I'd want to have to rely on to play gigs every day. But as a hobby horn, I love it. And as I've said before, after an hour on the 184, I can't miss on my Gnagey.

yeah...Here goes bloke with his B-flat jazz again...

There have been (not even referring to the smaller of the "Hagen" line, but some stuff that seemed to have appeared and disappeared) some (perhaps?) 85-sized B-flat models that Miraphone produced (which I've serviced and played) that are remarkably fine instruments (tuning characteristics, "lively" sonic characteristics", loudness potential, etc.). I noticed a couple of things that I would have changed, but only stuff like "put this cylindrical tubing HERE so that cylindrical tubing can be placed THERE, or "If you would just bend the mouthpipe in this manner (allowing for it via taking some length away from this unnecessarily-long main tuning slide) there would be room for a 5th rotor and slide."

Do I NEED one of those instruments? No. I do not.

[the elephant]

None of this matters now. The ad has been removed.

[arpthark]

Sometimes Facebook refreshes the URL... here it is:

https://www.facebook.com/share/17dSLjNZ7o/

[bloke]

Sometimes Facebook refreshes the URL... here it is:

https://www.facebook.com/share/17dSLjNZ7o/

How much would that be a month?