silver yamaha 103?

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Jose the tuba player
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silver yamaha 103?

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were any 103s ever silver plated? or is this just custom?
http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.mx/MLM ... yamaha-_JM" target="_blank" target="_blank
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It seems to say it was recently plated and engraved. His Spanish and mine have a little difficulty with some of his phrasing/word usage, but if you don't have the money to buy it, it is not for you, or so he says.

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Not exactly stock - I'm pretty sure the factory finger button caps are white, for one thing.
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I agree with bloke...totally stock, except the finger buttons.

The stock buttons were all brass, were they not? With no inlay, or at least a brass-lookimg inlay?
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as are the curb feelers.
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the elephant wrote:The air bag system and the skid plates are very cleverly hidden from view...
He forgot to add a couple things like spinners to that Low-Rider.

Get those top and bottom valve caps rotating in different directions while playing and at rest. Mesmerize audience members with your bell stack spinning clockwise & bell rim spinning much faster counter-clockwise. And who wouldn't want a mouthpiece rim made out of connecting chain links.
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Imagehttp://mlm-s1-p.mlstatic.com/bonita-tub ... 2014-F.jpg It could be a nice instrument but I think the red takes away from it. Perhaps gold would be of a better choice. The engraving looks super from the distance but I find it of a lesser quality from the close up pictures.
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Dan! You should totally do this to your new 4-valve Yammy! :lol:
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Thinking about it some more, it seems to me that if this is a truly Mexican website where it is posted, the price is maybe be not 30,000 US dollars, but 30,000 Mexican pesos. They use the $ in front of pesos. So if we look up the exchange rate, (excuse me a moment) I find that the current rate is 1 peso = 0.077 dollar. Therefore, 30,000 pesos equals 2295.75 dollars.

Does this make it anymore interesting to anyone?
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Perhaps Liberace came back as a tuba player in another country?
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