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Re: York Tuba

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Hmm...
Looking at ALL of the pictures the buyer should expect a lot of red rot. (Last picture shows the receiver NOT connected to the horn with chunks of leadpipe on it)
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"wouldn't kick 'er out of bed for snoring" as they say...

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bloke wrote:The York "Monster" Eb tuba pictured below, originally, was mine.

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It would cost more than the price of a Willson 3400 to "win" the distressed York "Monster" Eb tuba off of eBay and put it in top condition (as pictured below), at =440, and (again, as pictured below) fully chromatic with 5 valves.

The York in the auction is a BBb, right?

I'd bid but I know it's going to go higher than a sane person would pay.
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Alex C wrote:The York in the auction is a BBb, right?
Pretty sure the one in the auction is a monster Eb. (I used to own one.)
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[quote="bloke"]

It would cost more than the price of a Willson 3400 to "win" the distressed York "Monster" Eb tuba off of eBay and put it in top condition (as pictured below), at =440, and (again, as pictured below) fully chromatic with 5 valves.

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It went for $1875.21. Anybody in the repair business care to speculate on what it might cost to bring it up to something you would want to play?
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tbn.al wrote: It went for $1875.21. Anybody in the repair business care to speculate on what it might cost to bring it up to something you would want to play?
Well, that's the kind of thing Sam uses with 2341 parts and a rotor plus labor to make his horns.

So....

About $6K all in...
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The Big Ben wrote:
tbn.al wrote: It went for $1875.21. Anybody in the repair business care to speculate on what it might cost to bring it up to something you would want to play?
Well, that's the kind of thing Sam uses with 2341 parts and a rotor plus labor to make his horns.

So....

About $6K all in...
Sam bought that York. That's a lot of money for a parts horn. I'll bet he has better use for it than to use just the bell and bows for one of his CC horns.
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