Re: more interesting sousaphone
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 7:11 pm
Nice.....
Mark
Mark
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Re: more interesting sousaphone
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 12:29 am
I don't know anything about the horn but the guy in the pictures is tundratubist from here on Tubenet.
Re: more interesting sousaphone
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 1:45 am
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 
Re: more interesting sousaphone
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 9:15 am
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.
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.
Re: more interesting sousaphone
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 9:56 am
Is that $5 silver certificate included in the sale? It would make it a significantly better deal.
Re: more interesting sousaphone
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 2:43 pm
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).bort wrote:Is that $5 silver certificate included in the sale? It would make it a significantly better deal.
Somehow I doubt that it's included.
Re: more interesting sousaphone
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 10:30 pm
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 . . .
Just sayin . . .
Re: more interesting sousaphone
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2012 8:08 pm
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.