Consensus: Amount of $$ invested in your tuba collection?

[Viggofonen]

For my Besson Sovereign 981 I payed around 7k and for my 14 year old Hirsbrunner 290 I payed around 9k, with todays rates.

Together they are now worth around 20k.

[Tabor]

If I won the lottery, I think I'd want to buy an instrument factory.

[RossK]

• tubas: $0 (considering buying a cheap Eb)
  euphonium : $100.00
  other horns : $2000.00 (yamaha t-bone, getzen trumpet, holton farkas french horn)
  mouthpieces: $50.00

My spousal unit thinks I have gone overboard. I guess I need to introduce her to Mike L's wife.

BTW, here is an article containing a photo of Mike with one of the tubas that he brought to the Harvey Phillips NWBBb last summer.

http://www.iteaonline.org/Journal/32N1/ ... bash.shtml

[rascaljim]

Lets see here... I've invested 17,500 in my tubas, but if I had just bought them recentely, ie since the rise of the euro, I would have paid more like 24,500. If you are patient, you can sometimes find great deals (I've bought most of my horns new but I've been buying used more recently).

And for all you kiddies lookin for freebies in college, I paid for all of these while paying my own way through undergrad. It's called working and student loans. I think there's also a couple thousand of grant money I was able to convince a financial aid department of a liberal arts school to fund for my required tools. (of which the school did not own (ie f tuba))

Jim

[MaryAnn]

About $6500 to date.

My semi-spousal unit is a Class A packrat and would not have a problem with it if I spent my entire paycheck on tubas. Between us we have a plethora. Of everything, most of it his. I could live without the 20k-strong LP collection, though; I mean, you can only listen to so many records in a day....I never did understand the idea of collecting only to "have" things.

MA, whose house appears spartan until you walk into the music room.