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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

Bump, anyone?

Link?

Link

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

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'.

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

Roger

bloke wrote: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

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.

MikeMason wrote: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

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).

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

J

joh_tuba wrote:

MikeMason wrote: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.

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........

Scubatuba wrote: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...