Baer 6450 on WWBW

[Jim Andrus]

Does anyone know anything about the used handmade Baer on WWBW? It appears to be a great deal but it almost seems to be too good to be true. I was wondering if anyone has played it or knows someone who has played it. I sent an email and it is now in their warehouse so it's not open to the public but he said that it had been at a show at the beginning of the year.

Thanks,

Jim

[Jim Andrus]

Bump, anyone?

[bort]

Link?

[Jim Andrus]

Link

http://www.wwbw.com/Meinl-Weston-6450-2 ... 75154.wwbw" target="_blank

[NCSUSousa]

The link points to the page for the horn - both new and used.
See the used tab. They're listing one used for $16,550, in 'Mint Condition'.

[Roger Lewis]

Well, it looks like someone purchased it as it's not listed there anymore.

Roger

[Ace]

A few of us remember when a dollar was worth something (when real silver quarters, dimes, and half dollars were still in circulation), and a $16K price might have brought forth a few chuckles...but never the word, "bargain".

When my wife and I bought our first home in 1958 in Riverside CA, we got a four bedroom, two bathroom house on one-third acre for the princely sum of $14,000. We thought that was expensive. How things change, eh? I wonder what the cost of tubas was in those days.

Ace

[MikeMason]

Hmm.16,500. That's a lot of 100$ services. Especially if u r a broke college kid with no gig.not aimed at original poster or anyone in particular.

[joh_tuba]

Hmm.16,500. That's a lot of 100$ services. Especially if u r a broke college kid with no gig.not aimed at original poster or anyone in particular.

Your point is totally valid, but ironically, you just made the price seem a bit cheaper. That's 165 services.. which is not an unattainable number of gigs over the course of a few years if you are a driven student. If not, you could sell it and get most or all of your money back anyhow.

joh(being cantankerous)tuba

[Bob Kolada]

Join the Army, go active infantry, save up your bonus and pay, and audition into a reserve band near the college you want to attend as soon as you can go reserve. Bam! I don't know what it is now, but infantry guys used to get pretty decent signing bonuses (I worked with a guy who was headed out who got sixty grand, one payment, for two years active followed by a reserve obligation).

[Jim Andrus]

Oh you're right, it's gone now. It was there a couple days ago. Someone got a nice deal!

J

[WilliamVance]

Hmm.16,500. That's a lot of 100$ services. Especially if u r a broke college kid with no gig.not aimed at original poster or anyone in particular.

Your point is totally valid, but ironically, you just made the price seem a bit cheaper. That's 165 services.. which is not an unattainable number of gigs over the course of a few years if you are a driven student. If not, you could sell it and get most or all of your money back anyhow.

joh(being cantankerous)tuba

I seem to use this theory to support my tuba buying habit.

[Scubatuba]

FWIW, You could always buy the Yamaha YCB 826 at 40K......! Please Baer in mind (pun intended!), the 6450-S is the hand made production model, which means machine extruded end bows. The 6450/2S is a hand made sheet metal model. The extra price is because all the main bows are made by hand, which adds a lot more time to the production process, hence the cost. I am told that it takes 2 guys one day just to make the end bow........

[TheHatTuba]

The extra price is because all the main bows are made by hand, which adds a lot more time to the production process, hence the cost.

Yet, the bell is the same, and the bows are still blown out by a machine after hand hammering...