| I have a friend who is a brass repair tech and he used to cruise the pawn shops in the area pretty regularly (but not so regularly as to become a regular) to see if he could come up with some things - mostly he wound up with 80s era Bachs and a lot of student model Yamahas, many of them with valve troubles. He'd scoop them up, clean them up and get them working, and then sell them for profit. Once, he came across a Connstellation that had some troubles not worth fixing, but he grabbed it up anyway because at one other point he had grabbed up another Connstellation and between the two, there were enough parts to put together one fully functioning (and pretty nice playing) Connstellation which got sold to a guy who was using a Connstellation for his lead playing and was looking for one in better shape.
I need to start cruising the yard sales - I'm bound to find at least one gem or two in the mix.
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