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Mostly because i am putting off more important things, and these are at least nice pictures.

This Grand Rapids Band Instrument Company helicon is nestled snuggly amongst the Euphonium listings:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/315789080711



And this J.SRB (?) amongst other brass:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/186710882606



Along with this Wessex:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/315797635504



And a baritone(?) Gautrot Brevete helicon in Vintage Other Brass shipped from Brazil

https://www.ebay.com/itm/145721757887



And um...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/176319403642



You get the idea?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/135278159704



I think this has already been mentioned in another thread?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/405062005637



Did i miss any?

Well, besides this:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/135278159679



Alright... I hope that is out of my system, whatever it is.

Apparently there is something on reverb with 20K valves too.

But that is another thread.

These look interesting, not interesting enough to roll the dice on international Ebay deals and international shipping. And the price on the Wessex: really?

Always been intrigued by the little F helicons. Maybe not $800 intrigued, but intrigued.

Up until c. 2010 or so, I owned a GDR Communist youth band (paper I found inside the original rectangular case) 4-rotor E-flat helicon. It was a small bore, an Olds G-contra (chrome-plated) rotor was the same bore size, and I made the instrument chromatic in the low range via adding a valve. It was a pretty good instrument...
I'm thinking someone in Hawaii bought it from me, so I wonder if it got burned up or of the guy who bought it had a blue roof.

That first one, the Grand Rapids one, is an Eb, roughly equivalent to the Monster Eb tuba.

York-aholic wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2024 7:43 pm That first one, the Grand Rapids one, is an Eb, roughly equivalent to the Monster Eb tuba.

You're right!

I hadn't looked so closely at the valve set, xnd just assumed BBb on the full circleness.

Thanks! (and sorry for seeming surprised that you're right. More surprised i didn't pick up on that myself)

Nothing to apologize for @humBell I don't think you indicated what key it was in so I was just chiming in.

Surprised I was right? How Dare You!

Heck, I'm usually surprised when I'm right (and my wife is pretty much 100% surprised on the rare occasions when I'm right).

https://www.ebay.com/itm/167016148956

Anyone going through Georgia anytime soon?

humBell wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2024 3:52 am

https://www.ebay.com/itm/167016148956

Anyone going through Georgia anytime soon?

Lots of interesting oddities from that seller.

humBell wrote: ↑Tue Oct 01, 2024 11:21 pme pictures.

This Grand Rapids Band Instrument Company helicon is nestled snuggly amongst the Euphonium listings:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/315789080711

Despite what the ad says, if it says GRBIC it's 1911-1930.