farewell to arms
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2024 3:49 pm
...so I'm sorta making light of how tuba players refer to their selected instrument for a gig as "weapon of choice"...much as how bass trombone players seem to refer to their instrument/chair/music stand/folder as their "office"...
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This is a 1915 Conn Orchestra Grand (B-flat).
I decided to sell it for a mostly-as-is price to someone who really wants it.
TO BE CLEAR, IT IS SOLD.
I've not seen a picture of another one on the web that checks all these boxes with one instrument:
☑ short mouthpipe
☑ main slide after the valves
☑ four valve front action
☑ left hand accessible upper #1 tuning slide
☑ one-piece original upright bell
☑ all original everything
☑ no cracks nor patches
☑ nearly all of the silver finish intact
☑ playable without thousands of dollars of work beyond the acquisition cost
☑ 3rd partial open F is usable, particularly when the larger bows are warmed up to playing temperature
I'm pretty sure it will be picked up in a few days.
I roughed out the dents, aligned the pistons, straightened out a stem and some buttons, soldered two or three joints...unstuck the stuck slides...
again: very playable, and - if the next owner wants to trick it out, it's quite nice-playing enough to be worthy of that...and it should NOT need to be re-silver plated in any full-blown restoration thing. (again...only a few worn spots)
good-bye pics: (If "Conn Loyalist" wants these, they're welcomed to them. btw...it's a .765" bore instrument, and the bell is 22"...made in 1915...blah-blah-blah...)
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This is a 1915 Conn Orchestra Grand (B-flat).
I decided to sell it for a mostly-as-is price to someone who really wants it.
TO BE CLEAR, IT IS SOLD.
I've not seen a picture of another one on the web that checks all these boxes with one instrument:
☑ short mouthpipe
☑ main slide after the valves
☑ four valve front action
☑ left hand accessible upper #1 tuning slide
☑ one-piece original upright bell
☑ all original everything
☑ no cracks nor patches
☑ nearly all of the silver finish intact
☑ playable without thousands of dollars of work beyond the acquisition cost
☑ 3rd partial open F is usable, particularly when the larger bows are warmed up to playing temperature
I'm pretty sure it will be picked up in a few days.
I roughed out the dents, aligned the pistons, straightened out a stem and some buttons, soldered two or three joints...unstuck the stuck slides...
again: very playable, and - if the next owner wants to trick it out, it's quite nice-playing enough to be worthy of that...and it should NOT need to be re-silver plated in any full-blown restoration thing. (again...only a few worn spots)
good-bye pics: (If "Conn Loyalist" wants these, they're welcomed to them. btw...it's a .765" bore instrument, and the bell is 22"...made in 1915...blah-blah-blah...)
