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Re: Restoration

Author: DougR
Date: 2019-10-11 16:41

My suggestion is to keep watching auction sites for similar horns in your instrument's condition, so you can get a benchmark for what to ask.

I got a Series 9 full-Boehm off of "that" auction site for $800, in not-quite mint condition, that only needed minor tweaks to make it play. (This was an exceedingly lucky purchase price, due to the instrument's basic superb condition, although its case was missing the keratol covering on part of it and looks crappy but works fine).

There is a market for them, though--if you can do the minimum repairs to at least get the thing playable, and be honest about the condition, you should be able to move it; you don't say what's wrong with the case; if it's structurally OK but tatty looking, that's not necessarily bad.

As to what you should ask, keep checking the listings and see what the prices are; after a while you'll know.

PS, don't necessarily take the music store's assessment as applying to your valuation; they have to figure their costs of restoration against what they'd likely get for the instrument, and on a business basis buying your horn at any price wouldn't make sense. You don't need to worry about "store overhead costs" so that's something, anyway.

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