| This thread is messing with my head! I just paid for an ebay horn this weekend that'll be shipping from the Netherlands, and the price was pretty much right for an Eb. I liked the bore size and the overall design of the horn. It's a selmer from '66, and it seems that's a good time for the company in terms of craftsmanship. I don't really connect to the longbell Eb Bachs, and, while I have no problem E3Ls (they're wonderful horns!) for some reason I can't put my finger on, I just don't connect to it. Maybe it feels too much like my C (a small-bore Schilke) and if I get almost the same sound and feel, while that's good in some sense, I don't a much wider pallette of sound options. I don't know. That and a good E3L would run me about twice the 800 I'm paying for the selmer.
I bought the C blind with good results, but risky payment (Poland doesn't have paypal)... I guess the calculus is, what's it's potential resale value? For instance, I have played--and really clicked with--a Selmer Radial Eb, but if I don't like it, what is this horn going to go for? Don't answer that, I'm still sweating this purchase until it comes at least. |