What sells a tuba?

[Donn]

So, you expect sellers to do the buyer's negotiating for them? Hmmm.

I don't expect any negotiating. If you put too high a price on something, that's an error. Not an uncommon error, and it might fall to a prospective buyer to suggest a more realistic price, but for me, only if it's a gross error and the seller is unlikely to be able to sell it at the asking price. If it isn't so clear, then why should he or she sell it to me for less?

[Ken Crawford]

If it's an old tuba, say that Arnold Jacobs may have owned it, or one exactly like it, or that at one time he may have played it and said it was great.