So it just arrived today,
Looks like the Low Eb keys was bent (the part that closes the hole has stopped working, so when I press down the low Eb key it does not budge.
Overall I'm suprised in what good shape the wooden body is. I can see the brown wooden tone color of the wood throughout as well as the black.
The horn is suprisingly more lightweight than the Selmer Paris that I had.
The keys are sluggish and I'm sure adjusting will have to be done, padding looks ok but old.
But interestingly, the Bass came with cool stuff.
Vintage Selmer neck strap with 2 hooks, a Selmer Paris C* mouthpiece, vintage Selmer Reed cap, vintage Selmer metal ligature and some aged good looking Vandoren reeds.
Only thing I'm concerned or is whether the bell of the Bass is original or not. It doesn't have a Buffet Crampon stamping on it. And it looks a shinier than other nickel silver parts of the Bass. I could be wrong though.
I'll take even more pictures to show what I'm talking about.
I need a better tech to look at it.
Who do you recommend who has a lot of knowledge on Clarinets and other Instruments in the Clarinet family who works on Bass Clarinets?
I'm in the NYC area.
A thread from the clarinet BBoards has some recomendations:
http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=433549&t=429203
When I talked to Greg Smith about the Buffet Eb I have with; I'll put it as "narrow twelfth problems" to be kind to the problem's level of severity in the instrument, he recommended Guy Chadash like rmk54 in that thread did, and added that fixing that definitely wouldn't be cheap.
(also, anyone here know if Greg is doing okay? I know he was sick earlier this year and he also didn't show up to clarinetfest...I suppose I could email him then...)