Re: Stuffy Bass Bone Blues


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Posted by js on July 10, 2002 at 12:41:00:

In Reply to: Stuffy Bass Bone Blues posted by Dan Schultz on July 10, 2002 at 09:36:02:

He's wanting "list" for the tubes (probably cost him $50-$60 each + shipping), and $100 labor for unsoldering, installing, aligning, refinishing the lacquer of the inside slide hardware, and also a side-job of extracting and reinstalling the venturi-mouthpipe.

Steep, but reasonable.

Nope, you can't "partially rechrome" the inside slide tubes, and replacing them is probably just as cheap (and better) than rechroming the old ones - as the old ones now have wear "ruts" in them.

On the other hand, Blessing (who has fantastic prices for great trombones) used to wholesale to dealers a complete bass trombone playing slide assembly (lacquered) for less than $300 (reasonable discount customer price: about $450, particularly since no labor would be involved.) Unfortunately, Blessing discontinued their bass trombone because it was cutting into production of other trombones which were more profitable and more in demand.


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