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DAMN!

Looks to be about a buck a pound or so...

I gotta run up to LaPorte one of these days and visit Leisure Time Musical Instruments. Obviously, this is a pretty big operations. I was at a 'recycler' in Cedar Springs, Michigan last fall to pick up a load of tubas. It's pretty mind-boggling to see semi-loads of musical instruments!

bloke wrote:I see about $500 - $1000 worth of fiberglass and some scant partial valve sections in the picture...Am I missing something?

Could be. I'm getting 6 pix, all but one aimed a lawn display with over 4 dozen brass bells, couple dozen brass bodies, some white fiberglass bells and a big pile of bodies. Looks to me like many raw brass bells and silver plate, maybe 1/2 of the brass lacquered. Could be 1/2 ton of brass. I think they put the stuff out for the picture, wonder if they've put it back pending sale - looks like a lot of work.

I have listened to sousaphone sections that sounded like a herd of elephants, but this is the first time I have seen the sousaphone herd grazing in the back 40!

$14,999.99...

Ummm..... NOT!!!

Eric B wrote:I have listened to sousaphone sections that sounded like a herd of elephants, but this is the first time I have seen the sousaphone herd grazing in the back 40!

Cool!!!

I thought this one looked at first glance like a load of elephant tusks

Nice lawn.

I had forgotten what Green Grass looked like!

...................mine (in NC) is toast.

schlepporello wrote:I heard a rumor that the York #3 was buried in there somewhere.

Heck, the York prototype test-mule is there... but it's in the shed!

schlepporello wrote:

trseaman wrote:$14,999.99...

Ummm..... NOT!!!

I'll agree with that. there's too much work involved with trying to sort everything out.

Shucks, man, if I buy them, I'm not going to be doing that work myself. I think I'd haul them over to Bloke's and get him to polish them, for one thing.

Donn wrote:I think I'd haul them over to Bloke's and get him to polish them, for one thing.

Come back, Bloke, it was only a joke!

Donn wrote:Shucks, man, if I buy them, I'm not going to be doing that work myself. I think I'd haul them over to Bloke's and get him to polish them, for one thing.

Besides, everyone knows that you can't polish a turd!

windshieldbug wrote:

Donn wrote:Shucks, man, if I buy them, I'm not going to be doing that work myself. I think I'd haul them over to Bloke's and get him to polish them, for one thing.

Besides, everyone knows that you can't polish a turd!

Hey! Here's a place where you can buy a polished turd. Scroll down the page about halfway:

http://www.5eggs.com/petrified/wp-e-one.html

Ya just gotta love that "Beautiful Dung"! A handsome addition to any home!

Yessir, it's just what ya need if you're into the whole "dung shui" bit ...

I remember the first time I heard about this guy. Apparently he'd gone to Europe to buy tubas and bought what he thought were two 3/4 tubas that he could sell to his local Jr. High bands, uh, from the Gronitz factory.

Turned out that the Jr. High band players couldn't play low Bb on the tubas for some reason. The band directors didn't want anything to do with them. Someone walked into his store and found a bargain F Gronitz and he sold the other one by word of mouth.

That's the story I heard. I'd love to find someone who would authenticate it.

Alex C wrote: Someone walked into his store and found a bargain F Gronitz and he sold the other one by word of mouth.

That's the story I heard. I'd love to find someone who would authenticate it.

This sounds similar to an account a couple paragraphs into the 15th post in viewtopic.php?t=12140 .