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Author: Malaya
Date: 2002-11-23 01:33
I have an OLD Boosey & Hawkes... It was my grandma's. (I'm 16...) She says she bought it when she was about 12, but she doesn't know if it was new or used at the time. (She paid something like 90$ for it. WOW!) It says Boosey & Hawkes, The Edgeware, and London, has two barrells, metal rings (endcaps?) on the end of each joint... I'm interested in how old it is, and approximately how much it's worth. It's completely restored, and it plays beautifully. I'm not interested in selling it, just curious about what I've got. The Boosey & Hawkes website found no matches, and the serial number page on this website didn't list the number. Any music store I've had it in couldn't locate a year or a price in a catalog. Mom wants to insure it, so it'd be nice to know how much coverage we need. Any help you could provide would be much appreciated! Thanks a lot!
*~*Malaya*~*
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Author: Douglas
Date: 2002-11-23 02:19
In 1955 The Edgware (yes, Edgware, not Edgeware...it's the street the Boosey and Hawkes factory is on)cost $129.50 retail. It was considered an intermediate model, below their Imperial and Stratford models. It has a large bore and can produce a quite full sound. Value today? Probably $300 or so.
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2002-11-25 16:27
The B&H plant is (or at least was) located in the Edgware Road in London -- thus the name. It sounds so upper-class that eBay listings almost always assume it's a top-of-the-line model. Actually, they're usually a good buy on eBay, going for around $100 where equivalent student instruments go for $150.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: David
Date: 2002-11-25 22:22
Have a looka at www.boosey.com. In Instruments and "Tips and more", you can date your instrument by entering the serial number.
If it's got a 593 mouthpiece, junk it. A 926 mouthpiece will sound great with it (if they're still available.)
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