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Beat to death Cerveny Tornister Tuba
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:10 pm
by daktx2
How does this guy get so many old German horns!? That could be an awesome restoration.
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This is what a fixed up one will look like.
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[Edit] Now that I look at it again, it might be a tornister baritone. The length of the first valve slide looks shorter in the ebay pic than in the rugs-n-relics one. Still a cool instrument.
Re: Beat to death Cerveny Tornister Tuba
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:26 pm
by The Big Ben
daktx2 wrote:
How does this guy get so many old German horns!? That could be an awesome restoration.
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[Edit] Now that I look at it again, it might be a tornister baritone. The length of the first valve slide looks shorter in the ebay pic than in the rugs-n-relics one. Still a cool instrument.
The guy's in Germany for starters. I imagine they have 'thrift stores' over there as in the USA.
That's pretty rough and it might not be a tuba, as observed. I shudder to think how much that would be to have restored. Would be excellent as a 'hiking tuba', though...
Re: Beat to death Cerveny Tornister Tuba
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 1:10 am
by Nick Pierce
Re: Beat to death Cerveny Tornister Tuba
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:07 am
by Alex C
... and four thousand dollars later he had POS weird-looking tuba thing.
Re: Beat to death Cerveny Tornister Tuba
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:13 pm
by Donn
The Big Ben wrote:
I shudder to think how much that would be to have restored.
"The brass seems not to be too brickley.", at least.
Re: Beat to death Cerveny Tornister Tuba
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:16 pm
by NDSPTuba
I screwed up and overpaid for a schmidt style horn from him about 4 years ago. It was a Lydl in very ruff shape. I was "in a hurry" to get a schmidt style horn and didn't do my research and paid around $900 for a beat to crap horn. It ended up being restored into a beautiful rose brass schmidt style horn, that played pretty darn well. But I should of paid more like $100 for the horn to start at most. Just like this tuba. He must find suckers like me that will pay stupid money for beat to crap old horns often enough to not lower his prices. At least I learned my lesson and haven't done anything like that again.
Re: Beat to death Cerveny Tornister Tuba
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 1:37 am
by eupher61
Um....Dan? Want another restore job???
Re: Beat to death Cerveny Tornister Tuba
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 1:43 am
by Dan Schultz
eupher61 wrote:Um....Dan? Want another restore job???
I don't think that one's even a good candidate to make an appearance at TGI Fridays! I wouldn't want it hanging over the table where I'm eating!
Re: Beat to death Cerveny Tornister Tuba
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 2:23 am
by SplatterTone
I think if you wrap it in Gorilla Tape, then hit it with a high pressure compressor, it will inflate back out nicely.
