$225 Buescher sousaphone

[Jose the tuba player]

http://yakima.craigslist.org/msg/4640594297.html" target="_blank

[Worth]

Thanks for posting. This might be an excellent source of valves for my horn (missing 1 & 3) as it is identical, but at that price someone locally in Yakima should scarf it up if it has valves (in this day and age low rez pictures are unnecessary unless to hide something) and the listing is legit. Price seems on the low side for what the pictures depict.

[Jose the tuba player]

Thanks for posting. This might be an excellent source of valves for my horn (missing 1 & 3) as it is identical, but at that price someone locally in Yakima should scarf it up if it has valves (in this day and age low rez pictures are unnecessary unless to hide something) and the listing is legit. Price seems on the low side for what the pictures depict.

Why switch the valves? Isn't there a chance they will need to be honed to your horn? Why not just buy this one and keep yours as parts?

[Worth]

Good point. I've contacted the seller but it would be a long shot that this one is not going to sell locally. Thanks again!

[toobagrowl]

That is a steal of a deal for that sousa. Someone should snap it up if it hasn't already been sold. From those 2 pics, it looks like most everything is there except for the bits, and it looks to be in decent shape.

[Worth]

No response back from the seller -- email or text. I'm sure if it was legit it sold quick locally!

[Jose the tuba player]

That is a steal of a deal for that sousa. Someone should snap it up if it hasn't already been sold. From those 2 pics, it looks like most everything is there except for the bits, and it looks to be in decent shape.

Good luck trying to get a neck and bits for this horn,which might cost almost what someone paid for this sousa.

[toobagrowl]

Good luck trying to get a neck and bits for this horn,which might cost almost what someone paid for this sousa.

Even if you had to do that, you'd have $500 invested in this sousa, which would still be cheap. In the listing, the guy says there is a "gooseneck extension", so you'd only need to find bits, or have them made/fabricated by a good brass tech.

[Donn]

If someone goes out to get it ... the location indicated in the ad map is some urban sprawl off a cow town in a flat agricultural valley bottom, but a very few miles up hwy 12 are a couple very scenic routes across the Cascade mountain range, heading around Mt Rainier to the south or north depending on which route you take, and miraculously I believe the area has been spared from major forest fires this year. Weather has been pretty reliably sunny, kids are in school, days are a little cooler, forest service campgrounds line the route.