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I’m 99% sure I have a NOS LM5 in a box here. Should I sell it?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/156843384198

Daaaaaaang…

MiBrassFS wrote: Sun Apr 06, 2025 4:58 am I’m 99% sure I have a NOS LM5 in a box here. Should I sell it?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/156843384198

Daaaaaaang…

I think the LM10 or LM12 (can’t remember which one is the really shallow bowl with the undercut rim) is the one that commands four figures on the auction block.

Regardless, if you’ve got something like that and have no need for it, sell it.

I actually sold off some LOUD pieces on eBay when I still had an account. It was kind of amazing how popular they were.

Marketing built-in with a brand name like that...

Wait - they are getting 4 figures for these? Why? I’m guessing the LM-12 is in huge demand by college marching bands. I’m surprised they haven’t restarted production. I never cared for it though I hung onto it. The LM-10 (the design they made for Tommy Johnson) I like and use in my 185. Mine are the older two piece style.

The LM12 prices have come down a lot since Giddings started selling the Jon Gross, from well over $1000 to ~$500, It was mostly internet lore about the magical super shallow LM-12 that will make you crank like an HBCU star even though you are a freshman in highschool and can barely lift a Sousa up.

I got to play both the LM12 and the Jon Gross side by side.. The Giddings piece is much more comfortable and almost as punchy. All in all a much better mouthpiece. Still not my cup of tea though.

I had an ultra shallow, undercut rim LOUD prototype (13? 14? Don’t remember what it was called). The guy I sold it to went berserk when I showed it to him. That rim was crazy. He was happy, I was happy.

Those are hilariously expensive… They have been for quite some time. And that’s coming from someone who has like 10 Houser 3 piece models, but I’ve never paid close to that for any of mine. Why are these so expensive?

This thread was meant as humor.

I do have a bit of this stuff left (and have sold a bunch). Most of it is NOS still in the original packaging I bought in a lot. Please don’t bother with messages of “no one wants them anymore, but I’ll help you out. Here’s $1.59, etc.” It will not work. I’m also not interested in any sort of trade. I want to lessen the amount of stuff here, not collect more.

Thanks for reading!

MiBrassFS wrote: Tue Apr 08, 2025 2:44 am This thread was meant as humor.

I do have a bit of this stuff left (and have sold a bunch). Most of it is NOS still in the original packaging I bought in a lot. Please don’t bother with messages of “no one wants them anymore, but I’ll help you out. Here’s $1.59, etc.” It will not work. I’m also not interested in any sort of trade. I want to lessen the amount of stuff here, not collect more.

Thanks for reading!

So… you’ll take $1.60? Hot diggity!

arpthark wrote: Tue Apr 08, 2025 4:53 amSo… you’ll take $1.60? Hot diggity!

For you, yes. $1.60 and a GIANT York tuba!