Sonora/Giardinelli 101 Stencil
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:02 pm
Neat.
What's going on with that leadpipe?
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Re: Sonora/Giardinelli 101 Stencil
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:19 pm
Re: Sonora/Giardinelli 101 Stencil
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:24 pm
Looks like it was damaged and a piece scabbed in. It’s something I would fix were I to buy it.
Re: Sonora/Giardinelli 101 Stencil
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2021 8:58 am
Very Alexander looking braces and engraving on the rotors.
Re: Sonora/Giardinelli 101 Stencil
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2021 9:01 am
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Re: Sonora/Giardinelli 101 Stencil
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2021 11:11 am
Re: Sonora/Giardinelli 101 Stencil
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2021 1:08 pm
I saw another one of these recently...
Worse condition
over 3x the price
Worse condition
over 3x the price
Re: Sonora/Giardinelli 101 Stencil
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 6:03 am
The very best of these offer a really solid four octave range from B-flat to B-flat, and play circles around the copies. They also play considerably better than the subsequent models with the vertical slides. The problems are all related to age, with these - which is what (nearly always) discourages me from buying them for a flip. Most of them need mouthpipes and lower #4 circuits. One will do handstands trying to get replacement parts for these. Neither of these are particularly easy to fabricate in a repair shop.
These are from the same era as the venerable Symphonie Modell F tubas, and were equally fine instruments, but - being B-flat - were subject to school abuse. I remember when they were being offered - retail - for $700, when Miraphones were being offered for $2100...so the importers were probably paying a couple hundred bucks for these things.
If someone were to encounter one of these in really nice original condition, it would make an amazing Prokofiev V instrument with (unlike lap sousaphones) plenty of subtlety, and plenty of well-defined sound.
These are from the same era as the venerable Symphonie Modell F tubas, and were equally fine instruments, but - being B-flat - were subject to school abuse. I remember when they were being offered - retail - for $700, when Miraphones were being offered for $2100...so the importers were probably paying a couple hundred bucks for these things.
If someone were to encounter one of these in really nice original condition, it would make an amazing Prokofiev V instrument with (unlike lap sousaphones) plenty of subtlety, and plenty of well-defined sound.