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Gotta love those steel cables locking up all the horns!
While easily cut, they would at least foil the attempts of most "hit n run" thieves

-that's awesome

Someone must have been having a great year in 1977!

tofu wrote:I bet the story behind these two lovely tubas is interesting. In 1977 it would have been unusual for a "lovely young woman" to go over to Germany and buy these two horns. I would guess she must have been a real talent and wonder who this might be. I also would speculate that these may be two nice playing horns as she kept them for 36 years. Nobody keeps a couple of lemons that long.

Before Internet newsgroups, and before "megastores" (some of which are unfortunately gone now) there were very few places in the country to buy professional tubas, and selling them was even harder. People just learned to deal with what they had. A couple alternate fingerings? No problem! Slide pulls? Just do it. Fuzzy low C? Hear it in your head and confidently buzz it. The option of buying and selling every six months just wasn't available. Maybe the serious tubists practiced instead of looking for that next mouthpiece or horn...

Marty "who remembers seeing similar cables locking boom boxes at a large electronics store in the 80's. At least one of which had been cut."

Very cool, though if I had that kind of cash, there would be a TON of other options.

A beautiful set, to be sure! I'd like to put them, in their coordinated cases, in my Mercedes and take a ride...

ftempas wrote:A beautiful set, to be sure! I'd like to put them, in their coordinated cases, in my Mercedes and take a ride...

The horns do not have cases, just a gig bag for one of them (CC?)...

tofu wrote:
I bet the story behind these two lovely tubas is interesting. In 1977 it would have been unusual for a "lovely young woman" to go over to Germany and buy these two horns. I would guess she must have been a real talent...

Giardinelli's in New York is in Germany?