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Where is the rest of it?
Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 2:17 am
by LoyalTubist
http://cgi.ebay.com/H-N-WHITE-CLEVELAND ... dZViewItem
For 100 bucks, you can be the proud owner of a King tuba bell, suitable for use as a flower pot or spittoon--why couldn't the seller explain in his heading this is only a mounted bell and nothing else?
Oh, well...
Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 8:49 am
by trseaman
Creative?
Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:10 pm
by Kevin Hendrick
Couldn't help noticing this:
bot.inc wrote:Someone has creatively cut the the tuba ...
Something like "creatively reshaping" a Ferrari with a sledgehammer, isn't it? Good grief ...
Re: Creative?
Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:31 pm
by windshieldbug
Kevin Hendrick wrote:Something like "creatively reshaping" a Ferrari with a sledgehammer, isn't it?
Hey! I have the Ferrari/sledgehammer patented, but intellectual property is fleeting, so let's keep it down over here!
Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:48 pm
by Kevin Hendrick
So, is it time for the duck yet?
Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 1:44 pm
by windshieldbug
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 1:48 pm
by trseaman
I couldn't help myself and wondered who would actually buy this old Bell... I checked the winning bidder and his user name is: hnwhite
Sort of ironic huh??? I checked to see if he was selling anything and he wasn't but I also checked his recent feedback. I clicked the first item and was shocked! At least at what he paid!!! You gotta give credit to the sax seller for some great pics!
Tim
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0068179659
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:13 pm
by MaryAnn
trseaman wrote:I checked to see if he was selling anything and he wasn't but I also checked his recent feedback. I clicked the first item and was shocked! At least at what he paid!!! You gotta give credit to the sax seller for some great pics!
I'm sure there are more of us whose first eBay purchase is extremely embarrassing in retrospect. I paid about double for a euphonium that I could have found identical models of at Dillon's web site, if I had known enough to look. Learned my lesson on the first try though, expensive lesson that it was. A whole lot of eBay sellers go on the supposition that there is a fool born every minute, and many of them eventually venture onto eBay. BTW I still have the euph and still do play it, although it is clearly a beginner instrument that does not function in tune unless it is played with a 12C; I can't get it up to pitch with a 51D. Oh well; some day maybe I'll pick up a nice comper and sell this one for 1/3 of what I paid for it.
MA
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:46 pm
by Dan Schultz
trseaman wrote:I couldn't help myself and wondered who would actually buy this old Bell...
Did you have a look at the whole list of his recent purchases? This person is obviously a serious King collector!
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:58 am
by Lew
The Ebayer with the hnwhite name is actually H. N. White's grandson. I have corresponded with him several times. Yes he is a serious H. N. White/King collector, but it is because it is family to him. Here's a link to his website:
http://www.hnwhite.com/
Also, I believe that this bell was most likely a factory promotional item, as somone else surmised and not a conversion done from a formerly working horn.
