[Edit] Now that I look at it again, it might be a tornister baritone. The length of the first valve slide looks shorter in the ebay pic than in the rugs-n-relics one. Still a cool instrument.
Weltklang B&S Symphonie F tuba
Sanders (Cerveney 686) C tuba
daktx2 wrote:
How does this guy get so many old German horns!? That could be an awesome restoration.
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[Edit] Now that I look at it again, it might be a tornister baritone. The length of the first valve slide looks shorter in the ebay pic than in the rugs-n-relics one. Still a cool instrument.
The guy's in Germany for starters. I imagine they have 'thrift stores' over there as in the USA.
That's pretty rough and it might not be a tuba, as observed. I shudder to think how much that would be to have restored. Would be excellent as a 'hiking tuba', though...
I screwed up and overpaid for a schmidt style horn from him about 4 years ago. It was a Lydl in very ruff shape. I was "in a hurry" to get a schmidt style horn and didn't do my research and paid around $900 for a beat to crap horn. It ended up being restored into a beautiful rose brass schmidt style horn, that played pretty darn well. But I should of paid more like $100 for the horn to start at most. Just like this tuba. He must find suckers like me that will pay stupid money for beat to crap old horns often enough to not lower his prices. At least I learned my lesson and haven't done anything like that again.
eupher61 wrote:Um....Dan? Want another restore job???
I don't think that one's even a good candidate to make an appearance at TGI Fridays! I wouldn't want it hanging over the table where I'm eating!
Dan Schultz
"The Village Tinker" http://www.thevillagetinker.com" target="_blank
Current 'stable'... Rudolf Meinl 5/4, Marzan (by Willson) euph, King 2341, Alphorn, and other strange stuff.
