During his brief visit, Marcus indicated that Miraphone is developing new tuba models which should be ready within the next six to 12 months. It was good to see Marcus again and to meet Miss Osborne. I will keep you posted in future issues regarding new tuba models from Miraphone.

TE Moves into Second Building

I had mentioned in past newsletters that we have acquired the building next door to our original building, 1825 Chapel Hill Road. After some significant renovations, we have completed our expansion into our new building. Almost all of our new and used instruments are now housed in the new building, 1901 Chapel Hill Road. Our original building will be used for our ever-growing historic collection - 160 instruments at last count. In addition, our new building has the offices of Todd Rodrigue, our Sales Manager, Xavier Everett, our Operations manager, and Rob Webb, our Shipping Manager. There is also a very nice tryout/practice room in our new building to allow our customers to try instruments in private. We invite all of you to visit our new building and showrooms.

Historic Collection Acquisitions

Our original storefront is now home to our growing collection of historic instruments. Latest additions include: 1) A large Keefer EEb tuba with unusual enameled finger buttons showing the Keefer name and crest on the buttons; 2) a rare five piston valve Hawkes English euphonium, circa 1900; 3) a giant Holton EEb tuba, circa 1950, which is the only bell front EEb tuba in our collection, and has the unusual marking of a six digit serial number composed of all twos (222222); and, 4) a very rare four valve Holton BBb sousaphone, circa 1923.

TE Mission Statement

The Tuba Exchange has always been here to better serve our friends. With this in mind we have formulated a mission statement that clearly states this philosophy, as follows:

To offer our customers the highest quality Tubas, Euphoniums, and Sousaphones at affordable prices, while providing the best customer service in the industry.

Well, thanks again for your interest in The Tuba Exchange. It continues to be my pleasure to let you know what we are doing to discover new and exciting developments for you and all our friends.

Vincent Simonetti

President

P.S. The Tuba Exchange is indeed proud to now offer to our customers the newest St. Petersburg BBb tuba, model #202, in nickel or lacquer! For complete details of these finest quality tubas now available from The Tuba
Exchange, we invite you to review the informational insert found here in this issue of the Tuba Exchange News.