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Theshinytrumpet
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 6:05 am    Post subject: What is the best deal you've stumbled upon? Reply with quote

Hey Folks,

I have found some absolute STEALS this year through Facebook, eBay, estate sales, etc. It made me question what other horns people have found and how good of a deal they got.

My winner of this year has been a MINT early Elkhart Bach 37. I picked it up at an estate sale for $600, and it didn't have a scratch! After throwing a Blackburn pipe and tuning slide on it, it's become my main axe.

Some other cool horns I've picked up have been a Golden age 38B for $40, a few vintage Getzen cornets, the world's best LA Old's Recording, and a B&S Challenger.

What crazy good deals have you found?
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 6:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I got my first Martin Committee for less than the cost of a dinner for one from a nice steakhouse. It was a 1951 #3 large bore deluxe model. I've gotten many good deals since, but that was the highlight.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 6:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've found many over the years and have been fortunate to take advantage of them. But the ones that stand out in particular:

Bach 184 ML cornet in a pawn shop - $150
Getzen Severinsen in a GoodWill - $75
Olds Mendez in an antique mall - $45 (needed the lead pipe desoldered)

These were all "pre-eBay", so now deals seem to be the exception and sellers put outrageous prices on "meh" items (and not just trumpets.) But I did get a time capsule pre-UMI King Flair in pristine original case with a full set of mutes at a local estate sale for $100; and an early Yamaha "Designer Series" C trumpet on goodwill.com for $500 within the last two years.

I usually pass these horns on to students of colleagues at a price far below market value. I usually try to make $100 on a flip. The only "find" I've held onto lately is the above-mentioned Yamaha C that I had blueprinted and installed a Yamaha Chicago II pipe and tuning slide.

I will also post heads-ups on here when I see a promising estate sale outside my area. Within the last two weeks, there was one in Louisiana with several interesting horns.

Rarely do I find anything these days, but hope springs eternal!!!

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 8:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was giving a clinic one day and noticed two trumpets just casually laid out and unused. I looked at them and they were pre-war French Bessons. I asked the band director why they were neglected and he said that thay had missing valve caps!

I had a Severinsen and told him I'd trade even and he said "Sure". Unfortunately, when I returned the next day to pick it up, his supervisor had said there would be paperwork problems and he had to renege. So, I almost got a good deal.

I did get a Pan American peashooter once for $1.00, though. Does that count?
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 8:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I got a Burbank 5star (one of the very first) plus a Yamaha double case for $150.

Got it from a retail store of all places. The owner knew what he had, but couldn't sell it to high schoolers and was happy to get it off his shelf.
Before I came along, it sat in a warehouse in a paper bag for 19 years.

"It's worth more than that."
"Not to me."

Honestly, the 5* is not my favorite model. But for the price....

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I got my Reynolds Argenta this year for roughly the price of a steakhouse dinner for two. Very neat horn. Sounds like my Conn cornet (the entire thing is solid nickel silver, after all), projects like a cannon.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This Summer I stumbled across this ad on Facebook Marketplace on the other coast:



I had a colleague who was local and who picked it up for me. So for basically the cost of shipping I got this near mint '56 Committee. I'm still pinching myself.




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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

On musicgoround.com I bought a Smith Watkins Cornet with a whole set of Soulo Mutes and interchangeable leadpipes

It was $99. That is a $4200 MSRP cornet.

Also, at a local guitar store they had a Getzen Eterna Eb trumpet with D slides. They had it in the back "Because schools aren't really interested in these horns". Sold it to me for $50
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 10:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Also, not really a "steal" just my favorite horn.

All throughout my degree I always absolutely stunk at Eb trumpet. I just had a tendency to overblow. That is, until I played my professor's large bore Bach Eb with a 229 bell.

When he retired him and I talked and he said he would sell the horn to me for real cheap.

It was a graduation present from his wife when he got his doctorate, he picked it up from the Bach factory, and I got it from him for a couple hundred dollars and a few drinks at the bar.

I'll never get rid of it. Not only for the sentimental value, but they are so hard to find in general. A large bore Eb strad with a C trumpet bell. Its an unbelievable horn.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 10:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

jeirvine wrote:
This Summer I stumbled across this ad on Facebook Marketplace on the other coast:



I had a colleague who was local and who picked it up for me. So for basically the cost of shipping I got this near mint '56 Committee. I'm still pinching myself.





Dang! I had a Martin deal a few years ago, an Imperial. It was an early one, where the Imperials and Committees were more similar. I thought I ran away with a deal when that was $100. Yours is probably the best of all time.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 11:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I bought a Selmer Radial LB for 250, sold it for 750. Great horn though but not for me
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 12:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I bought a Thein without flying to Germany and getting put on a waitlist.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 2:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I picked up a Mount Vernon Bach 3 for $35.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 2:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Receiving a number of mouthpieces free.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 3:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have never:

Had a hole-in-one.
Been given a warning instead of a ticket.
Won anything.
Gotten a great deal on a trumpet.


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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 5:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When I was really looking for instruments years back, among other things I came up with:
-A hand-engraved Selmer Mark VI alto sax for $200
-A gold plated Selmer "cigar cutter" tenor sax for $100
-A solid silver Miyazawa low B flute for $600
-A 4 rotor Miraphone Bb Tuba for $700
-A very fine Chicago Benge for $400

I missed a perfect, old, gold plated Holton Al Hirt model trumpet that a guy wanted his 10 year old daughter to start on in school. Had been her grandfather's and it was pristine. I gave her a Yamaha beginner tpt in the small, burgundy case to use- I couldn't let her bang that up, and she dropped out after about 3 weeks. (And it wasn't due to the Yamaha...) Never got back to them to try to con them out of it.

All pre-internet days, when there were real deals to snag if one had cash. I also still have about a dozen or more old early 1900s silver cornets (Conns, Holton Al Tru, Pan Am, Martin Handcrafted Dansant, etc, etc), some that still have the original cleaning rods, mouthpieces, oil bottle, slide grease tins and tiny metal straight mutes all packed in the original cases. I think the most I ever paid for one was $40.

It was a much cooler place before the internet and various cable TV "Pawn and Picker" shows. It was the same for all the other toys.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 6:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Years ago, I won a 1955 Mt. Vernon Bach Strad trumpet at an antique auction for $60. A couple years later, I bought a 1976 Bach Strad trumpet at a junk store for $150. I still have that one and it’s still my primary trumpet.


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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 7:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I purchased my first Committee for $200 in a pawn shop a number of years ago-not the one I have now. It was so new it still had the warrantee card in the case.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Subtropical and Subpar wrote:
I got my Reynolds Argenta this year for roughly the price of a steakhouse dinner for two. Very neat horn. Sounds like my Conn cornet (the entire thing is solid nickel silver, after all), projects like a cannon.


Not trying to one-up you, I swear, but I got my Reynolds Argenta cornet by going through my dad's estate after he passed away. This was the house I grew up in. The oddest thing was, he knew I played trumpet, but never told me about the horn. It was the last thing I got to, in the far corner of the basement.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 11:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stradbrother wrote:
On musicgoround.com I bought a Smith Watkins Cornet with a whole set of Soulo Mutes and interchangeable leadpipes

It was $99. That is a $4200 MSRP cornet.

Also, at a local guitar store they had a Getzen Eterna Eb trumpet with D slides. They had it in the back "Because schools aren't really interested in these horns". Sold it to me for $50


That's a rather good deal even just for the mutes.

I'm surprised given that musicgoround isn't usually that under priced, in my experience. I tried talking them down on a either a Selmer Radial or Benge 5X a few years back without success. Nice.
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