The Horn that Got Away: biggest trade/sale regret?

[gregsundt]

4/4 Rudy, ca. late 70s.
B&S Symphonie F.
1965 Epiphone Century, cherry-stained maple, built in Kalamazoo.
1963 Fender Bandmaster piggyback, tan w/brown face.
1984 Music Man Stingray bass.

I can't go on....

[Donn]

Well, tactically, I sure should have hung on to the beat up Olds O99 and Reynolds sousaphone I had back in the '80s. Not that I haven't had anything their equal since - on the contrary, the 40K I came out of that with is truly the best - but at the time, as a practical matter, that was dumb.

[KyleRichter]

I went up to Steve Ferguson's place (Horn Guys) several years ago, and he was kind enough to let me play everything in the shop. The horn that really stood out, (intonation and sound quality) was Steve's personal HB2P. Unfortunately it was about $1500 more than I wanted to spend, and I didn't feel comfortable haggling after he'd let me play $100,000+ worth of his stock. The closest I've been able to come to the sound and quality of that HB2 since then is the Rudy 4345(R) that I now have. No regrets on the Rudy, but the HB2 would have put me on track a couple of years earlier.

I wonder if this is that tuba. Sounds like it.

It is that tuba. I was going to comment about trying out that same tuba sometime last year when Steve had it on display. Playing it for ten minutes had me completely convinced that I needed to own that tuba, but Steve walked out and told me Blake had already claimed it. It's an awesome tuba, and I would likely be trying to buy it if I hadn't just bought an HB-2P of my own last month.

[jeopardymaster]

In 1984 I sold a really fine Cerveny 601 BBb I had bought from Walter Sear in 1978. To buy a computer. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

[Three Valves]

No regrets, but it would be fun to spend an afternoon with some of my old tubas. I bet I would initially regret selling them, and then soon remember why I sold them in the first place.

3v Says;

No regrets, but it would be fun to spend an afternoon with some of my old girlfriends. I bet I would initially regret dumping them, and then soon remember why I dumped them in the first place!!