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How much do you think a tuba decked out like this would cost?

I dunno, but you'd better factor in around $25K for one of these to move it around...

clagar777 wrote:How much do you think a tuba decked out like this would cost? <img src="http://www.monette.net/newsite/images/i ... ikalpa.jpg">

You had in mind a price per pound?

I got to hold a trumpet like that the last time I visited the Monette factoy. It weighed about 8 lbs versus 2 lbs for a normal trumpet. The price was secret, but Im guessing about $25,000. On a per pound basis, the equivalent tuba would weigh 120lbs and cost $375,000. If a Bach trumpet costs $1400 and a monettephone costs $25,000, then if a standard tuba costs $5000, the contrabass monettephone would cost about $90,000. It would also probably be far too dark sounding and far too loud.

You could deck a tuba out like that far cheaper with some posterboard, an exacto knife, glue, and a can of gold spray paint. Under fluorescent light, the Monette finish looks very much like gold spray paint.

-Eric

Chuck(G) wrote:You had in mind a price per pound?

Well, at least per Euro...

More thoughts about "price per pound".

http://robotics.caltech.edu/~kj/jay/ContraSale.html

clagar777 wrote:How much do you think a tuba decked out like this would cost?

Funny that you would use the word "Decked" in conjunction with heavyweight mods

$5 away from nearly useless.

tubafatness wrote:$5 away from nearly useless.

Oh, I don't know. If you cut youself on one of the sharp braces, then maybe you could sue. Big $ in that!

Boanerges wrote: $5 away from useless - Warren Deck's Tuba design

Fit to throw rocks at the big boys, are ye?

Now is a good time for the tuba beer picture. Just where is it?

You mean this one...



or this one?

Yes! And even another reason I play a 3-valve comp instead of a 4-valve comp: the top picture is the only good use of the 4th valve I've come across.

that trumpet's baseline cost used to be 20K$ USD (Raja Samadhi)my guess is that the trumpet probably cost 30K


Tuba... well screw that... get an estimate from Dan Oberloh, he'll probably prefer to do silver with a goldwashed bell though

Boanerges wrote:Hmmm - what's happenin' with Jay Easton? Might he be selling off his instrument collection beginning with his contrabass saxophone?

My understanding from being on the Contrabass list is, that Jay very much will continue playing low vented metalloids.

The sale indicated by the link is about Jay buying a German design called a Tubax, which is a smaller bore contrabass saxophone:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubax

Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre

http://www.contrabass.com/

How low can you go?!