Back on market. STELLAR Alexander 163 BBb: 7500

[Mary Ann]

From the same deceased owner as the gold brass F, assumed to be "about" 30 years old. Yellow brass, some small dents were removed, has a few negligible dings left. Ultrasonically cleaned, new bumpers, plays great.
Prefer not to ship, but will ship with XPO trucking company on a pallet, risk and cost to buyer. Play test available in Tucson. Cash, local bank, or check will have to clear.
$7500.

Puctures here:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/kbvbvadj ... 0yzs2&dl=0

[Heavy_Metal]

Beautiful!

[Mary Ann]

Bumpity bump.

[Mary Ann]

Bump.

[Mary Ann]

Bump. I will be speaking with the owner with a translator within the week so I can get a better idea of what she wants to do. One of the things I'm suggesting is to put this and the F on consignment for visibility, since what I'm doing is not working. If I refused to ship, I'd understand it, but I haven't refused, just said I'd rather not because of the damage potential and the fact that these cannot be duplicated anywhere.

[Mary Ann]

Back on the market. Buyer and I decided that with all the things that were getting in the way of shipping it to him, that we'd cancel the sale.
$7500 plus shipping, for this marvelous Alexander BBb. I prefer you come pick it up one way or another. Although it is well-packed in a box, shrink-wrapped at this point to a pallet.

[York-aholic]

You might want to edit the title of the original post…

@Mary Ann

[the elephant]

You might want to edit the title of the original post…

@Mary Ann

Definitely. Edit your title. I thought it was sold. I am sorry the deal fell through.

[Mary Ann]

Ok, bump. I FINALLY have a shipping quote that is less than $600, from XPO, which includes residential pickup and delivery and removal of the pallet. The tuba is shrink-wrapped to a pallet on saw horses in my garage.

I will simply repeat that this is not some beat up rusty hulk of a tuba but pristine lacquered yellow brass that has no major dents. It plays well, for me appears to have very workable intonation, and I even have a video I made of my very bad contrabass playing on a tuba twice my size, if you want to hear intonation without any slide pulling.

$7500 plus shipping. The shipping is an estimate and I had it calculate from Tucson to Bloomington, Indiana because those were two zip codes I had in my head.

You could do SO much worse. Here are the pictures again:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/kbvbvadj ... 0yzs2&dl=0

[martyneilan]

If you're going to own an Alexander contrabass tuba, BBb is the way to go. Just my opinion...

[Mary Ann]

Bump. Someone is going to be in love, when they realize what this is. Pictures are still up, I have a short video demonstrating no-slide-pull intonation with my obvious lack of contrabass expertise (available upon request.)

[bloke]

Were it not that I am ridding myself of debt (as we accumulated some during "covid", and I'm just not accustomed to having any) I would get the car checked over and drive to Arizona - with federal reserve notes - to see if that tuba is something that I could use myself.

[bort2.0]

I wish!