- came with something he bought...??
- had it for a long time, and tired of stepping over it...??
We had one of these at my spartanly-equipment-supplied (ie. poor) high school, for a very old King 1240, which (likely) was given to our school (from another school's band director, who knew it was hopelessly worn out - ie. valves) when our school was first opened in the late 1950's. (I attended from the end of late 60's to the mid-'70's.) I used that (yes) worn-out King 1240 (patched bell rim, and pistons rattled in the casings) to play in the youth orchestra and the all-state band, and it sat on a stand just like this one (when not being played)...so it's nice to have this stand - for sentimental reasons. (We also had some same-make/same-style "butterfly"-shaped stands in the band room.)
...I'll probably put my big 24" recording bell (a work-in-progress) Besson compensating B-flat on it.
As Mike Wolfe would say on his not-reality show:
Just look at that beautiful rust.
The two photobombing items on the coffee table:
(left) a vintage Peterson transistor (set for each individual pitch, but extremely accurate) electronic strobe tuner...good enough for tuning a piano.
(right) Peterson's first-ever product: a vacuum-tube powered tone generator (for tuning organ pipes)...very rare.
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