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What to do with a India POS baritone

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 12:19 am
by oldbandnerd
Years ago I bought this India POS "euphonium" ( that was how it was listed on eBay) not knowing it was a "P.O.S" instrument. I've had this thing for about 8 years and was tired of it just collecting dust. So this weekend I turned it into a sprinkler for my wife's garden.
Normally I hate to see a instrument being wastefully turned in a wall hanging on a restaurant wall or as someone's planter but this thing was of no real musical value. It had a dreadful sound and was miserably out of tune . This is about as useful as it gets.
Those of you who want to know how I made it I took pictures that you can view here : http://s2.photobucket.com/user/jty05/sl ... 0Sprinkler" target="_blank

Re: What to do with a India POS baritone

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 9:06 am
by MartyNeilan
The middle school where I student taught bought a slew of these things, when they had something like 18 baritone students sign up one year. Although they played terribly initially, they sent one off for an econo valve job and were surprised at the results. They are now sending off a few a year for the same, to have very playable student baritones.

Re: What to do with a India POS baritone

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 10:17 am
by windshieldbug
Not enough water overhead. The Atlantic ocean would look better. :P

Re: What to do with a India POS baritone

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 5:09 pm
by Bob Kolada
MartyNeilan wrote:they had something like 18 baritone students sign up one year.

The horror!!!

Re: What to do with a India POS baritone

Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 9:46 pm
by tclements
this is FREAKING brilliant!!!!