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MW 3/4 BBb -- needs repairs
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2021 11:12 am
by hrender
Seems a good deal if you can get a 1st valve slide and nothing else is seriously messed up.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/144061645534
Re: MW 3/4 BBb -- needs repairs
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2021 12:55 pm
by 2nd tenor
Missing a slide and a valve button plus bumps and the valves are frozen. If I wanted a small BBb and was in the States then I’d be tempted to take a chance and get my cheque book out ... well assuming I had a reasonable technician available to me to sort the missing parts (they might need to be specially imported / difficult to source). It otherwise looks in reasonable condition and isn’t so expensive that if repair wasn’t easy you’d take a financial beating. Worth a punt?
A short search suggests that this is a model 11.
https://m.facebook.com/midsouthmusic79/ ... 070554516/
Re: MW 3/4 BBb -- needs repairs
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2021 3:27 pm
by LargeTuba
I think it's an older MW Hojo "jazz" tuba.
Re: MW 3/4 BBb -- needs repairs
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2021 8:53 pm
by The Big Ben
LargeTuba wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 3:27 pm
I think it's an older MW Hojo "jazz" tuba.
Nope. It's a MW 11- quite a different bird.
With the prices down and quality going up on Chinese tubas, I'm not sure I would get something like this to "fix up" unless you have the skills to fix it yourself. You might have a lot of money into it and still have a so-so tuba.