Posted by Dale on November 17, 2000 at 12:53:15:
Some of the responses made me laugh out loud. PLEEEEEASE! Maybe if
John Lennon HAD engraved his name on his Steinway there wouldn't have
been at least 6 of them sold as originals. The same for Horowitz and
Elvis, who must have had 5000 original guitars sold as his first. Not
to forget a President and his sex...sax.
Somebody else said they wouldn't pay as much for a horn all scratched
up like that! That was laughable! Somebody wouldn't pay as much for
the best sounding horn in the world because it had some delicate
engraving on the back side where only a few would ever see it. Sort
of tells you that some people are more interested in how a horn looks
rather than how it sounds. Sounds like people that wear white gloves
when they play their horn (the ones other members in the band laugh at
under their breath) so 20 years later, when they sell their horn,
they'll get $27 more. And they spent $147 on white gloves.
We're not talking UGLY SCRATCHES here! It's not even where people
would ever see the list. ON THE BACK! The place NOBODY other than
the tuba player ever sees or even cares about.
I know people with fabulous classic cars that keep them in plastic
bags in the garage only to be taken out, put in a van and hauled to a
car show once, maybe twice a year. (I stupidly did that for a few years!)
Then they die of old age having never
driven it. They NEVER ripped up the coast highway or roared around
those corners in the Hollywood Hills in it. The "Kepted Perfect",
car or horn, comes at a price that can make you miss something. The
"perfect look" is just half of it! Don't be SO CAREFUL of your horn
that it causes you MORE WORRY than PLEASURE!