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Adams F tuba for sale. Missing large leadpipe. The included (smaller) leadpipe is missing a lot of silver plating. The horn is in outstanding condition, otherwise.
The price includes a Wessex-branded hard case blocked for a horn that is very similar to this one, so it fits okay, but not perfectly. (I have used it without incident.) It also includes the original Adams-branded gig bag, but I can include an excellent Cronkhite bag I had made for it (but that I wanted to keep for another instrument) for an additional $500.
This is a seriously nice tuba, so there is no way I will trust it to anyone other than myself and the eventual buyer, so NO SHIPPING. I drive halfway across this continent to buy this horn, you can, too. It is worth the effort.
I paid $12,500 and expect to get that much back for it.
So, to review:
Adams F — $12.500
Extra set of buttons — included
Adams bag — included
Wessex case — included
Cronkhite Cordura bag — $500
Shipping — Not on your life, Bubba!
Trial — I will set up a suitable location where we can meet and that will be easy to locate.
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Why am I selling this tuba if it is so dang great?
Not that it is any of your business why someone chooses to sell something, I have found that knowing this information (and any known backstory of the instrument) sometimes is a factor in my desire to buy something.
So here it is:
My Kurath is 99% the tuba this Adams is. I use my F almost exclusively in quintet, and I play in two quintets. These are pretty active groups, and one of them uses a set drummer with me playing lots of low-register walking basslines. When I *do* use the F in the orchestra I need it to have a different timbre, which the Kurath has. The upper range of the Kurath is not as solid as that of the Adams, but I do not regularly play solo recitals where this would be more important to me. I cannot afford to have two F tubas and need money for some long-term house issues that must be addressed — but — not right away. I can afford to wait for the right buyer, so I am unwilling to haggle. The price is the price, and this is a heck of a nice musical instrument. It is worth the expense if you want a great-playing piston F tuba with a colorful tone and solid… well… everything.
There is a heavy bottom cap on 4th only. I do not know whether this was added later or if Adams did this. No regular cap was included, so I think it is original to this tuba. The missing silver on the leadpipe is hard to see as it is more or less on the part that faces the bell. I rate the physical condition of this tuba overall as a strong 98% compared with a brand-new one. It plays very well.
PM me if you want to talk.
I will clean up the fingerprints on the horn and take some clear SALES photos soon. Right now all I have are random poser shots I took at home or work as well as those sent to me by the seller that prompted me to drive from central Mississippi to north of West Point, New York, and back.
On the left. (No, the one on the right is not for sale.)
186 shown for scale…
Included hard case…
It's a sexy, little beast…
This is the set of finger buttons I use. The convex Adams buttons will be stored inside the hard case in a baggie. I greatly prefer these.
