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One of my school customers (middle school band director) has one of these in pretty darn nice shape... It has sat and sat and sat in there instrument room for decades...ever since this modern era school was first built, and I'm pretty sure it was brought in here from another school that decided it didn't want it. (band directors and other tuba players with their wrong headed opinions...
)It's not gleaming and the lacquer isn't gleaming, but it's not beat up, the fiberboard case is in pretty good shape, it's got a neck (possibly no bits, I didn't see any given my 5-seconds glance... I might have an old pair of Olds/Reynolds bits that would mate up properly with a Conn neck) and I'd wager that the valves look fine.
I'm just about as sure as I can be that it has never been refinished or NOR does it have any patches on it.
I want to take another look at it (condition-wise) , but there are things that they would like to have instead, and they never use this sousaphone.
They have some school board money to buy things, and this sousaphone is on the inventory, but there is a person to talk to who has the power to release inventory, and that person also has a good relationship with me.
If you are a person who is really interested in owning an instrument like this (24 inch bell, .734" bore, Elkhart, sister instrument to the brass 14K), maybe you could send me what you would be willing to pay for such an instrument.
Realize that shipping costs something unless you would be picking it up.
Based on the highest amount of sincere $$$$ interest that someone sends to me in a private note, that would affect how much trade-in value I would offer for it towards that which this band director would prefer to have.
To be clear, I would pick over it, and it would be turn key ready.
You don't need to make your best offer of monetary interest quite yet. Let me take a second look at it, pull it out of the case and check for defects.
Just consider this a preliminary heads up.
Also realize that I haven't even spoken to the person in the administration building who has the power to decide whether or not it can be traded off and removed from inventory.
(The band director wants me to sell them a 3/4 tuba. Of course this fiberglass sousaphone would sound so much better in their band than a 3/4 tuba, but it's not any of my business.)