What's the best deal you ever got on a horn you bought?
Free doesn't count (so for me that rules out a number of my horns like my Martin Handcraft tenor and my Pierret alto), so of the ones I paid for, I'd have to say that the best deal would have been the Huttl alto, which turned out to be a rare Hammerschmidt, that I picked up at an antique show for $165 (or something like that) in Oct '04. I didn't know what it was, but it was made very well, and had a number of features that made me think that it was a bit "special". It would take 3.5 years to find out how special, but as it turns out, it was worth the wait.
How about you? What's the best deal you ever got? Find an old 5 digit VI at a flea market for 50 bucks 20 years ago? A bass used as a plant stand in a restaurant?
Free doesn't count (so for me that rules out a number of my horns like my Martin Handcraft tenor and my Pierret alto), so of the ones I paid for, I'd have to say that the best deal would have been the Huttl alto, which turned out to be a rare Hammerschmidt, that I picked up at an antique show for $165 (or something like that) in Oct '04. I didn't know what it was, but it was made very well, and had a number of features that made me think that it was a bit "special". It would take 3.5 years to find out how special, but as it turns out, it was worth the wait.
How about you? What's the best deal you ever got? Find an old 5 digit VI at a flea market for 50 bucks 20 years ago? A bass used as a plant stand in a restaurant?
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