Re: Re: "Blind Date" with a tuba


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Posted by former 184 owner on September 03, 2001 at 16:23:06:

In Reply to: Re: "Blind Date" with a tuba posted by yikes on September 03, 2001 at 10:17:08:

Well there are certainly two sides to every story. Unfortunately, having never heard
a peep after shipping the "wornout" 'nee "vintage" 184, seller never had opportunity
to address the prob. Buyer in their zeal to get it offered $1000 more than the reserve price on the auction and asked to stop the auction early and take purchase of the horn. Seller had used the horn last in a BQ concert, and is hard-pressed to imagine where there could possibly be 8 leaks in any leadpipe on a playable horn. Of the half-dozen locals who'd played the horn, no one mentioned such probs, but only one of those people has a job playing full-time. Seller is flattered in a way at implication that foto attempts were so well-done as to "hide all the many probs." It was just a pair of instamatic snaps delivered on disk by Long's drugstore. Had never even measured the early 80's bell to see if it'd fit that 1963 horn, but had no reason to think it was "cut" heck there was solder all over the end of it! Cannot say what seller would have done if told of such probs, but seller DOES know that its impossible to make amends when there's no indication of a perceived wrong - especially when probs aren't known until nearly two years have passed. Had wondered whatever happened to that tuba, and have sincerest regrets in both possible ways. First for having sold the horn, (the last three 184's that came through here were'nt even as good a prospect as that one) as well as for the buyer's remorse.


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