more interesting sousaphone

[bisontuba]

Nice.....

Mark

[Chadtuba]

I don't know anything about the horn but the guy in the pictures is tundratubist from here on Tubenet.

[WilliamVance]

I would only buy it if they throw in the chair for free... Then I could take it to concert type gigs and pretend to be Robert Wagner in Stars and Stripes Forever

[Tundratubast]

Yep, that's me playing the incredible Conn. It sounds best witht he bell tilted forward when being played. I was outside
playing, due to low ceilings in Taylors. The horn is so massive, with the bell upright it sounded woofy, because the bell
was so far a way. Tilted forwarded, it took on the "holy Crap" sound that you would expect. I've had a Satin Conn 40K in the
past and this horn plays very similiar. Open blowing, with a great low range as expected. IT is damn heavy, it would
be a short lived gig if you had to stand through it. If I recall, the body is stamped 48K, I don't remember seeing a stamp
on the raincatcher bell. But, I'm not the one to spar with regarding one of a kind model numbers. It is a nice show
intstrument. I did offer to Stan at Taylors, that I would be willing to preform with it around the region to demonstrate its
uniqueness to area tubist. He didn't take me up on that one. I don't own it either, nor does my first born want to move away.

[bort]

Is that $5 silver certificate included in the sale? It would make it a significantly better deal.

[Tom]

Is that $5 silver certificate included in the sale? It would make it a significantly better deal.

That particular silver certificate is very rare. Graded examples in really good shape can go for $2000 or more to a currency collector (I am not a collector---at least not in that sense--- though I still very much enjoy collecting currency, probably like most of you).

Somehow I doubt that it's included.

[Uncle Buck]

Assuming the bidding doesn't go much above the starting bid (but it might), it would take about 100 alums of any particular school to chip in a Ben Franklin each to see this beauty forever on display at their beloved alma mater.

Just sayin . . .

[Lew]

At one time I would have considered it.. I had a plain vanilla version of this that I sold to Mike Lynch a number of years ago. I suspect that he has his eye on this one too...It is a beautiful horn.