Posted by Joe Baker on December 18, 2001 at 13:03:40:
In Reply to: What's Your Best Bargain Ever? posted by Steve W on December 18, 2001 at 12:07:13:
I submit for your approval my Benge 190F trombone. I was at a church rummage sale, and found this thing in a corner, marked $40. As I was carrying it to the checkout they announced that, effective immediately, everything was half the marked price. I got it, ugly though it is, for $20. It was badly abused in its former life, especially the bows, which were unbelievably dented ( I used marbles as dent balls to ROUGHLY open the tuning slide up). But it plays beautifully, and in five years has never been in the shop. I've never played any trombone I like as well. It is my baby!
Joe Baker, who wishes he could find such a deal on an overhaul.