What in the world is this all about?

[sugawi]

https://seattle.craigslist.org/oly/msg/d/seattle-sousaphone-baritone-euphonium/6920553180.html

[The Brute Squad]

At least he knows what a french horn is

[windshieldbug]

IT'S A TRAP!!! THE LAST THREE TUBAISTS THAT WENT THERE NEVER CAME BACK!!!

[humBell]

IT'S A TRAP!!! THE LAST THREE TUBAISTS THAT WENT THERE NEVER CAME BACK!!!

The rare and beautiful Venus Fly Tuba... Please don't kill it!

And a young one too. The fact they are unbranded implies this is its first season large enough to bear tubas.

[EMC]

Maybe some occult ritual, or effigy to keep other tubas away.

[Three Valves]

“This is what happens to trespassing helicons and their little accomplices!!”

[KiltieTuba]

Those helicons are all Indian-made.

[edsel585960]

Brass laundry?

[MN_TimTuba]

What you do when you don't have spit valves.

[Donn]

Someone's introducing a new line of tubas. Or, a line of old tubas.

Or both. Indeed they look like India. I picture some enthusiast picking up a demo set, thinking he had a gold mine of cheap horns he could sell to the masses at a modest markup. The ivy infestation goes with the theme - he'd have hired someone to keep that stuff at bay, back in India.

[toobagrowl]

Yeah, when I saw those pics I was thinking; Seattle + a bunch of helicons = must be Donn's place. j/k At least those helicons have thick (or should I say thicc?) bracing