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clagar777 · Post by **clagar777** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 1:52 pm

How much do you think a tuba decked out like this would cost?

poomshanka · Post by **poomshanka** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 2:09 pm

I dunno, but you'd better factor in around $25K for one of these to move it around...

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 2:39 pm

clagar777 wrote:How much do you think a tuba decked out like this would cost? <img src="http://www.monette.net/newsite/images/i ... ikalpa.jpg">

You had in mind a price per pound?

Shockwave · Post by **Shockwave** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 6:03 pm

I got to hold a trumpet like that the last time I visited the Monette factoy. It weighed about 8 lbs versus 2 lbs for a normal trumpet. The price was secret, but Im guessing about $25,000. On a per pound basis, the equivalent tuba would weigh 120lbs and cost $375,000. If a Bach trumpet costs $1400 and a monettephone costs $25,000, then if a standard tuba costs $5000, the contrabass monettephone would cost about $90,000. It would also probably be far too dark sounding and far too loud.

You could deck a tuba out like that far cheaper with some posterboard, an exacto knife, glue, and a can of gold spray paint. Under fluorescent light, the Monette finish looks very much like gold spray paint.

-Eric

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 6:59 pm

Chuck(G) wrote:You had in mind a price per pound?

Well, at least per Euro...

Ace · Post by **Ace** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 7:15 pm

More thoughts about "price per pound".

http://robotics.caltech.edu/~kj/jay/ContraSale.html

MartyNeilan · Post by **MartyNeilan** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 9:18 pm

clagar777 wrote:How much do you think a tuba decked out like this would cost?

Funny that you would use the word "Decked" in conjunction with heavyweight mods

tubafatness · Post by **tubafatness** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 9:59 am

$5 away from nearly useless.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:10 am

tubafatness wrote:$5 away from nearly useless.

Oh, I don't know. If you cut youself on one of the sharp braces, then maybe you could sue. Big $ in that!

UDELBR · Post by **UDELBR** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 2:40 pm

Boanerges wrote: $5 away from useless - Warren Deck's Tuba design

Fit to throw rocks at the big boys, are ye?

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:48 pm

Now is a good time for the tuba beer picture. Just where is it?

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:58 pm

You mean this one...

or this one?

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:38 am

Yes! And even another reason I play a 3-valve comp instead of a 4-valve comp: the top picture is the only good use of the 4th valve I've come across.

prototypedenNIS · Post by **prototypedenNIS** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 12:27 pm

that trumpet's baseline cost used to be 20K$ USD (Raja Samadhi)my guess is that the trumpet probably cost 30K

Tuba... well screw that... get an estimate from Dan Oberloh, he'll probably prefer to do silver with a goldwashed bell though

imperialbari · Post by **imperialbari** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 1:06 pm

Boanerges wrote:Hmmm - what's happenin' with Jay Easton? Might he be selling off his instrument collection beginning with his contrabass saxophone?

My understanding from being on the Contrabass list is, that Jay very much will continue playing low vented metalloids.

The sale indicated by the link is about Jay buying a German design called a Tubax, which is a smaller bore contrabass saxophone:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubax

Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 1:07 am

http://www.contrabass.com/

How low can you go?!

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