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Originally Posted by Welk To prevent this type of confusion, I'll have Leigh doing a Customisation/overhauled certificat that I'll leave in my case to sort of identify the horn history. |
I actually bought a Conn 88H trombone on eBay. Nobody wanted it because it had been silver plated and in the process the serial number was unreadable. Nobody wanted a famed Conn 88H made in Abilene! So I bought it figuring is was a good price and who knew?
When the horn arrived, it was in great condition. The slide needed a little work -- OK. But it played nice. I put the horn in my ProTec gig bag and stored the original case. Some months later I went through the original case. Suprise, there was a record of what was done when the horn was plated in 1993 and the serial number. Low and behold, it was an Elkhart. That piece of paper made me almost a $1000 when I sold the trombone (I am playing a ZeuS BTW
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You never know sometimes.
M&C