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The university i attend has about 4 old sousaphones in their storage including an old York. I am trying to get them to sell them so that they can buy a good F tuba. Does anybody have any ballpark figures for what a York sousaphone in good condition would go for?

Tigertuba wrote:. . . . Does anybody have any ballpark figures for what a York sousaphone in good condition would go for?

Some Yorks are more equal than others.

3 or 4 valves? Case?

The last York sousas made around 1950 or so are only student quality with likely valve wear problems and probably not worth much more than the shipping cost.

I sold an old 3 valve York Monster sousaphone for about $700 2 years ago. It had a 28" bell and 0.75" bore. I seem to remember an almost identical horn selling this year for around $1000. Mine was a York Band Instrument company instrument from the 1940s.

Condition, key, model, number of valves, and age are all determinants of value. As someone already mentioned, earlier York instruments, labeled York & Son or Sons, or York Band Instrument Co were better than the later ones just labeled York.

i sold one (Bb) with a reconstructed leadpipe but with tape on a hole on the third valve slide in 2000 for ca.$1600, played well, so-so condition (we "germans" will do almost anything for beer $$$$)

There are some "York" sousaphones and tubas out there that are "not" Yorks as we think of them. Anything made post 1945 is made by Boehm & Meinl; they "bought out" the York name. If it's marked "Grand Rapids" it could be worth some good $$. Old horns are worth "what you can get for them". Take your time and you'll get what they're worth.

Q: How many bushels of corn does it take to buy an F tuba?

bloke wrote:

Haugan wrote:Q: How many bushels of corn does it take to buy an F tuba?

Which F tuba?...Which bushels of corn?

The four-cob bushels are more valuable than the three-cob bushels, especially if they're marked "Cob & Kernels".

Haugan wrote:Q: How many bushels of corn does it take to buy an F tuba?

One, if it's big enough.

How many bushels of corn does it take to buy an F tuba?

this is what happens when one lives too long in wisconsin. on the other hand, we in germany ask the question: how many cases of beer does it take?

tuba kitchen wrote:How many bushels of corn does it take to buy an F tuba?

this is what happens when one lives too long in wisconsin. on the other hand, we in germany ask the question: how many cases of beer does it take?

Actually, in Wisconsin it would be how much cheese, in Iowa it's how much corn. I still like your question better.