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Hello all. The time has come for me to sell or trade my St. Petersburg 209 CC tuba as I am looking to upgrade to another CC. This tuba served me well in the beginning of my undergrad and was an amazing horn to learn CC on. This horn comes with both a Tuba Exchange gig bag and a road case style flight case. The hard case does not have carpet on the outside like most St. Pete hard cases.

I am looking to get $4300 OR BEST OFFER for the horn, gig bag, and hard case. The price is negotiable, and I am open to any cash or trade offers.

PROS:
• This horn has been well taken care of. It’s gotten a few chem clean baths since I’ve owned it and is always stored in either its gig bag or soft case when not in use.

• All the valves and slides move freely and quietly. I will make sure to grease the slides and oil the valves before handing it off to its new owner.

• This horn is very comfortable to hold for long periods of time.

• The sound. For anyone who has played a St. Pete they know that these horns sit on the smaller end of a 4/4 horn. This tuba has a big sound and will be great in anything from a chamber group to wind ensemble or a college orchestra. It also plays very well as a solo horn as well and sounds full in all ranges.

• Intonation: the horn plays well. It does require some slide manipulation mostly of the 1st and occasionally the 4th slides for Db for me at least.

• It comes with two cases: This tuba has a Tuba Exchange gig bag and a road style flight case. The hard case doesn’t have carpet on the outside like almost every other hard case for St. Petes. This is a hard style case that is riveted on the corners and edges with metal braces and hard plastic fronts. It is a tank and will keep the tuba safe and also has a strap inside to secure the tuba down. This strap will not and does not hurt the paddles or linkages.

CONS:
• Dents: The horn has a few dents. These dents DO NOT affect the horns sound or playability in anyway. One is a small one on the bell that was present when I first purchased it. There are two dents on the body. One is on the body brace at the top of the bow before it takes the last turn to the bell and the other is alone the bottom bow brace.

• This horn is an older edition of the 209. Having played some of the newer 209s the only difference I can feel is that those feel more compact holding it.

• The receiver: The receiver for this horn is in no way damaged. The reciever is smaller than your standard receiver but It WILL fit a standard mouthpiece in the receiver, but the mouthpiece will stick it out more than a standard receiver.

Lacquer wear: as this horn was well used and cared for it does have your typical lacquer wear spots. I have pictures of the worn spots.

I have pictures of the horn and both cases at this link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=13EynL ... or35qxq3O7" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank

Please feel free to message me with any questions or offers!

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Bump for price drop to $4400. I am open to negotiating offers or trades.

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Bump for price drop to $4300. If you have an offer I'm all ears.

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I traded/sold my 209 St. Pete last year. It was a nightmare to try and find someone to trade or to sell it... and my horn was listed for half the price yours is. I am trying to help you out here, if you would really like to upgrade your horn I would consider listing it for much less and like Wade said list the horns you would like to trade with. If you have any questions on how I listed my St. Pete feel free to shoot me a message. Best of luck with selling your horn!

Options:
- Wait for the right buyer
- Drop the price until it sells
- Put it on eBay for a low price and see where it ends up
- See if BBC or Dillon will take it as a trade-in for whatever you can get

This isn't in response to ashhealey's post, but in general, it seems like people sometimes feel stuck with a horn that won't sell. I don't necessarily believe that, I think that for the right price, any tuba will sell. Naturally, people want to recover as much $ as possible, and there's some weird idea about trying to constantly break even with tubas.

Joe mentioned this in one of my posts a while ago, and I've thought this for a long time -- take a bit of a loss, but reason through it this way. What's the loss, and what's the amount of time you've owned it? Say you've owned this for 3 years. And are selling it for 1500 less than you bought it. That's under $10 per week. Was it worth $10 per week for you to own the tuba for 3 years?

Graham,
The above 3 guys have each sold more horns than I will ever own, so I take their tips seriously.
One thing you may want to consider is to list the solid flight case separately, and sell the 209 with the bag. That would do 2 things
1) you will possibly sell the hard case first, as I'm sure it would fit a number of tubas out there (and it evidently hasn't made enough impact to entice a buyer at this point)
2) this would automatically lower the price of your horn a good amount, making it more appealing to someone comparing it to a new horn that doesn't include the hard case.
Just my 2 cents worth.
Good luck with that sale (or trade)!