"Hey bloke, We need to buy a bari sax."
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2023 2:14 pm
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."
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."