Ha! The common derogatory comment to a bad horn when I was in school was, "Make a lamp out of it!" A friend of mine said that so often I actually went to a pawn shop, bought a cheap trumpet, and did exactly that. He still has it. I only drilled one small hole in main tuning slide, so a small repair and the horn would actually be playable, if you could call it that!
bloke wrote:After a delightful afternoon (pumping out my septic tank to protect fill-lines - due to an extremely rainy season here), my reward was to then cover myself in delicious red waxy powder while polishing this tuba. OK. It's done.
For the sake of the future player I hope you took a shower between these two tasks.
Kind of pitty this fine instrument goes to a school. Hopefully it will be takeb well care of.
bloke wrote:I believe it is completely intact, including the Plexiglas covers for the upper doors' interior shelves...Maybe (??) the magnetic strips are missing from those, but that's probably the only thing(s) missing on the entire old "NAPA" cabinet.
bloke "who bought it quite a few years ago for c. $100 one evening at a shabby auction house about a block away from my old storefront in Memphis"
Glad to hear it, but saddened to hear you paid that much for it. Around here, they are an easy "curb find."
