"Hey bloke, We need to buy a bari sax."

[bloke]

It turns out that they have an Antigua (brand) bari sax (not too bad out of adjustment at all, shiny, no real damage) and all it was missing was the NECK...so they assumed they would have to buy an entire instrument.


They also have a Cannonball bari sax. In the case with the Cannonball (logically) is the correct neck, PLUS a Bundy/Selmer USA neck.

...so I'm ORDERING them a neck to fit the Antigua (measured the female receiver - approx. .830" I.D. - found some short/no-octave-key "Selmer-style" bari sax necks - China - on eBay for $50 which offered SEVERAL choices of neck tenon sizes (21mm, 21.5mm, 22mm, 22.5mm, etc.) chose the 21mm, and it's on it's way.

I also suggested to the band director that (though Cannonball isn't all it's cracked up to be), they might (??) want to keep that one INDOORS and march with the Antigua and to look through their spare instruments room and FIND the Selmer, USA bari (also for outdoors)...

...so we'll probably be doing $100 - $200 adjustments on (hopefully, if the band director is lucky) each of THREE bari saxes (once they find the Selmer, USA) and sell them a $50 neck at cost for the Antigua bari sax...

RATHER THAN selling them a whole/new bari sax for $3500 or so.


bloke "I'm really tired of people (who - btw - quite often do not vote for the same people for whom I would choose to vote...often: gov't or "non-profit" employee) who are not self-employed, are not in the technical-service industry, and do not work in retail, who automatically ASSUME that every one of the previously-mentioned classifications of people/businesses are assumed to have the objective of gouging their customers. Once of twice - having recalled these tiresome types of libel aimed specifically in my direction, yet the same people later ask me for my help - I've given such folk a 'Sorry, I'm just too busy, right now' type of response."

[matt g]

These are oftentimes the same people that complain about electricians and plumbers making $$$ per hour yet they have neither the diligence nor competence to do those “lowly” jobs.

On topic: a $3500 bari sax seems pretty reasonable in this day and age.

[bloke]

These are oftentimes the same people that complain about electricians and plumbers making $$$ per hour yet they have neither the diligence nor competence to do those “lowly” jobs.

On topic: a $3500 bari sax seems pretty reasonable in this day and age.

There are some for cheaper, but I'd be hesitant to order one in - sight unseen.

The JP nicest alto plays astonishingly well in-tune (ie. "I don't get it"...I don't GET how JP managed to get the octave D's in tune, as well as the pitches around G NOT sharp...?? ), the cheapest JP tenor does as well, but (though as good or better than most of the other economy Asian bari's) I'm not particularly fond of the JP bari's.
I don't believe I sold THIS Antigua to THIS school, but I've sold the Antigua's as "back-up/second-band/marching bari's" over the years.
They don't play in-tune as well as a Yamaha 62 bari (well...nothing does), BUT the parts that other Asian factories fabricate of folded-over sheet metal: Antiqua makes those parts on a lathe, and (in addition) BOTH the upper and lower stacks (for those who know to what I refer) feature RIBBED construction, rather than each individual post having it's own little round foot (much easier to bust off the instrument)...so Antiqua bari's are a LITTLE bit heavier, but they tend to be more difficult for post-Orwellian age teenage children to tear up...

...OK: Here's a "mystery bari" for only $1500...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/225462224019
(Heck...Maybe...?? we should by one - to see if it's any good...??)

Also, I haven't checked Antigua's pricing, since this top-down engineered economic shutdown plus (same source of human suffering) hyperinflation...so I have no idea whether they've gone up "hundreds" of dollars or "nearly a thousand" dollars (??)
edit: OK...Online, I'm seeing the standard model c. $5000, which (likely?) means that I could still sell one to a school for not much more than in the past, and still end up with a few hundred dollars "evil profit" (to buy my 10 lb. sacks of frozen chicken leg quarters, 10 lb. "chubs" of 30% fat ground beef, and 10 gallons'es of gas for my '07 Matrix.)