Need to borrow a tuba

[a2ba4u]

Here's the deal:

I would like to borrow either a Yamaha C tuba or a Yamaha F tuba for an international trip during the month of July. Some terms are...

1. The lender must live in the southeastern US, though offers from the midwest would be considered.
2. The lender would be compensated.
3. I would purchase extra insurance for the horn or pay the lender for an insurance rider that covers the entire cost of replacing the horn should catastrophic damage occur.
4. The horn would fly in an heavy-duty, ATA spec flightcase to and from the international destination.
5. I would need to have the horn from approx. July 4-5 to July 29-30
6. The horn would be cared for meticulously by me

Please PM or email me for more info. Thanks!

Kyle

[iiipopes]

Drury College, Springfield Missouri has a couple of Yamaha 621 4-piston CC's that are not now used much, and are compact enough they would probably travel well. Chair of the music department is Dr. Tijuana Julian.

[Dan Schultz]

Have you considered borrowing a horn on the other end? I've about quit worrying about flying with a horn.

[Thomas Maurice Booth]

I don't have a tuba you can borrow, but I have something else you can blow for a couple weeks.

[LoyalTubist]

Have you considered borrowing a horn on the other end? I've about quit worrying about flying with a horn.

I toured some little islands in the Pacific Ocean with a group that played symphonic music for folks whose lifestyle in the jungle hasn't changed a whole lot in the past 500 years. (That was when they were introduced to loincloths and skirts.) Anyway, we flew in old DC3s and we pretty much had to do our own packing. Only when we would get off the plane, the locals would really try to help move our luggage and instruments around. They treated my tuba as if it were building material--not very gently. Even though it was in a case, it sustained many dents in those trips to the islands. (It received all those dents on the ground, not in the air.)

[a2ba4u]

Dan, I will be traveling to a "second world" country where tubas are something of a rarity, so borrowing one isn't reall an option.

iiipopes, thanks fof the tip. I will look into it.

All--er--Thomas, thanks for the offer, but I think I will pass.

Kyle

[LoyalTubist]

When I lived in Indonesia, it surprised me that you can buy tubas off the rack at many of the sporting goods stores in Jakarta (they put sports and Western music in the same category.) Your choices were usually: A Jupiter convertible tuba; a Weril tuba; or a Conn white fiberglass sousaphone.