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From: Kadamasuta@aol.com
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 20:50:01 EST
Subject: Re: Contrabass sax sale
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comYou mean a Selmer Contrabass Sax went for that much dough? Did I rip myself
off ny trading my Brono Perfection for 3 X-large out-f-prints $us?Should I builde a new compuond kick-boot lever with pull string so I can kick
myself in arears for another 13 years?K:(
In a message dated 1/25/00 2:15:02 AM, flams@MIT.EDU writes:
>> >and the contrabass sax.
>> One sold in Manhattan last month, new, for $35,000. Not to me, sadly.
> That sale price is funny because when I was in Internationa Brass and
>Woodwind over the summer looking for a bass clarinet, I asked the guy,
>just out of curiosity, how much he'd sell the contrabass sax for. Back
>then he said $19,000 or $20,000. He said it had spent way too much time
>in the store and he wanted to get rid of it. Too bad for the poor sap
>who bought it. (sorry I'm a few days behind).
>
>--Mike Famulare
---------------------------------------------------------Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 07:30:54 -0400
From: "Robert S. Howe" <arehow@vgernet.net>
Subject: Re: Contrabass sax sale
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comMichael G Famulare wrote:
>>>and the contrabass sax.
> > One sold in Manhattan last month, new, for $35,000. Not to me, sadly.
> >
>
> That sale price is funny because when I was in Internationa Brass and Woodwind over the summer looking for a bass clarinet, I asked the guy, just out of curiosity, how much he'd sell the contrabass sax for. Back then he said $19,000 or $20,000. He said it had spent way too much time in the store and he wanted to get rid of it. Too bad for the poor sap who bought it. (sorry I'm a few days behind).
>
> --Mike FamulareThis is that Sax! That is the price I was told it sold for, perhaps
they highballed the buyer and he didn't blink. The buyer was a
collector in "the far east" who was represented by a New York agent.
The photo of the sale shows a Chinese fellow hugging the Saxophone,
presumably the buyer's agent.Robert
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