| Yeah,
A sniper in the last 5-10 seconds will come out of nowhere with his/her first bid and smoke the competition.
The question will be . . . who will bid the highest proxy in those final seconds to get the horn. In this case, a lot of snipers will be disappointed . . . as will the high bidder too I suspect.
Still . . . its a fairly early Strad with a LOT of little details in the small parts and in the workmanship that are far different . . . and very interesting . . . vs. Bach's later instruments.
ON A SIDE NOTE . . .
I played a big band gig on an Air Force base a year ago and bumped into an old guy who had been in WWII. "I played in an Army band during the Second World War," he told me. "Me too," I replied.
I asked him what type of horn he preferred and asked if he still owned it. "I still have it, and its in great shape," he replied, "although I haven't played it for MANY years." He went on, "It is a Bach Strad that I bought new back in the late '30s."
Being a gentleman, rather than a scoundrel, I told him what it was worth today and he was shocked. Gosh . . . I probably could have bought the horn cheap but I didn't want to do it to a fellow bandsman!
Tom |