Posted by Rick Denney on March 05, 2001 at 17:32:04:
In Reply to: Re: York EEb sousaphone on Ebay (NOT MINE !) posted by re: sousaphones needing valves re-built. Cost? on March 05, 2001 at 13:14:44:
The going rate seems to be $100-150 per valve, plus the cost of dissassembly to remove the valve cluster from the instrument (easy on a Sousaphone). They will bore the casing to make it straight, plate the valves with a strike coat of copper and a final coat of nickel, and then lap them in.
Rick "repeated what I've heard" Denney