Adams F — $12,500 — SOLD!

[the elephant]

THIS INSTRUMENT HAS BEEN SOLD!
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Adams F tuba for sale. The large leadpipe was not included when I bought it. The included (smaller) leadpipe is missing some of the silver plating. The horn is in outstanding condition, otherwise.

The price includes a Wessex-branded hard case blocked for a horn that is very similar to this one, so it fits okay, but not perfectly. (I have used it without incident.) It also includes the original Adams-branded gig bag.

This is a seriously nice tuba, so there is no way I will trust it to anyone other than myself and the eventual buyer, so NO SHIPPING. I drove halfway across the continent to buy this horn, and you can, too. It is worth the effort.

I paid $12,500 on July 18, 2023, and wish to get that much back for it. I dropped about three grand on the trip, so that is the "depreciation" I have to eat.

So, to review:
Adams F — $12.500
Extra set of buttons — included
Adams bag — included
Wessex case — included
Shipping — Not way, Bubba!
Trial — I will set up a suitable location where we can meet and that will be easy to locate.
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Why am I selling this tuba if it is so dang great?

My Kurath F is 99% the tuba this Adams is. I use my F nearly daily for chamber music in my job. I play in two quintets, which are pretty active groups, and one of them uses a set drummer with me playing lots of low-register walking basslines. When I use the F in the orchestra I need it to have a different timbre than what *I* get out of the Adams, and the Kurath has in abundance. The upper range of the Kurath is not as solid as that of the Adams, but I do not regularly play solo recitals where this would be more important to me. I cannot afford to have two F tubas.

This is a heck of a nice instrument. It is worth the expense if you want a great-playing piston F tuba with a colorful tone and solid… well… everything.

There is a heavy bottom cap on 4th only. I do not know whether this was added later or if Adams did this. No regular cap was included, so I think it is original to this tuba. The missing silver on the leadpipe is hard to see as it is more or less on the part that faces the bell. I rate the physical condition of this tuba overall as a strong 98% compared with a brand-new one. It plays very well.

Nota Bene —

This tuba has an interested party already, and he has the right of first refusal. If you are interested he has to bow out first. I hope to hear from him very soon, though, so it should not be an issue.

[the elephant]

Here's the hornporn…

On the left. (No, the one on the right is not for sale.)


Elephant shown for scale…


186 shown for scale…


Included hard case…


It's a sexy, little beast…




This is the set of finger buttons I use. The convex Adams buttons will be stored inside the hard case in a baggie. I greatly prefer these.

[Casca Grossa]

The 186 is still the money shot for me.

[the elephant]

[the elephant]

On hold.

[If it is not purchased I will know by late December and will put it back up for sale after the new year.]

[the elephant]

SOLD!

[the elephant]

Congrats to buyer and seller. I have to say that when you bought the adams, I wondered how you were going to deal with breaking away from the Kurath that you put so much time and effort into. It's not like you put lipstick on a pig, the Kuraths were great tubas

[the elephant]

My Mom passed away. I received a small inheritance and spent it on two tubas. I have never owned *nice* tubas unless I made them nice myself. So these purchaases were a whim. I learned what I needed to learn. I made some choices. Now I am getting some of that money back.

Oddly enough, the overlap in my CC tubas is more between the Miraphone and the Yamaha, rather than the Yamaha and the Holton. I use the Yamaha as my main tuba now and go to the Holton when "big" is on the menu. I am not playing my lovely, old 186 very much anymore, so it too is up for sale.

So in the end, my "stable" will be the Holton, the Yamaha, and the Kurath.

Weird, I know.

[kingrob76]

Not weird at all. My Eastman 836 profiles a lot like your Yamaha - it's an "every day" horn. I don't have a need for what something like the Holton would do for me so I'm good, and my Getzen covers the smaller end of the spectrum (and as a plus is point-n-shoot for me). I'd like to add a piston F but I don't know if I have the cycles to get comfortable enough on F to have the fingerings be completely seamless between my eyes and hands. If I did, my Getzen would probably be nothing more than a cozy insurance blanket.

[the elephant]

SOLD! Thanks for all the interest.

[arpthark]

SOLD! Thanks for all the interest.

I bet that means a very merry Christmas to you!

[the elephant]

Just paying down hospital debt from my two ER visits and week-long "vacations" over the last two years. It will be extra nice to zero those out.

And an order to Miraphone, of course, heh, heh…