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So a dealer I know said he had an original Super Balanced tenor coming in on consignment that he’d let go for $4200 and would have it repadded in the price. My first horn growing up was an SBA that I had for years so I was getting excited and nostalgic. Plus the price was great.
Well, today I got the call that it was in and I rushed over to look at it. I was handed the proper old tan case. Good. I opened the case and a nice, very worn looking SBA is there. Cool. Unwrapped the neck …. wait a minute, this is a VI neck (flat S octave mechanism instead of the proper coat hanger style). Well, for the price I can live with that. Wait, much of the engraving fades away at the edges. Some is almost gone altogether. Damn, my excitement turned out to be over a poorly relacqed SBA with mismatched neck. :x
It played very nicely but I wasn’t about to drop that much money into a project horn. If it had been really cheap perhaps it would have justified a silver rehab/rebuild.
Dean
Well, today I got the call that it was in and I rushed over to look at it. I was handed the proper old tan case. Good. I opened the case and a nice, very worn looking SBA is there. Cool. Unwrapped the neck …. wait a minute, this is a VI neck (flat S octave mechanism instead of the proper coat hanger style). Well, for the price I can live with that. Wait, much of the engraving fades away at the edges. Some is almost gone altogether. Damn, my excitement turned out to be over a poorly relacqed SBA with mismatched neck. :x
It played very nicely but I wasn’t about to drop that much money into a project horn. If it had been really cheap perhaps it would have justified a silver rehab/rebuild.
Dean