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Should I sell them, or be known as "that guy with the tubas"?
I don't think there is much demand for yamaha ybb-103's and 105's these days, is there?

https://photos.app.goo.gl/8x1UKvu3JBkLxmUj7

103s have their fans, as they are effectively YBB-621s with only three valves.

It all depends on your pricing and their playability.

Middle schools eat up 105's

People who do stand-up gigs eat up 103's

Cut one to CC and add 3 valves

I'm not sure what you paid to obtain this lot of 7 tubas...

...but if you sell them at a fair price and make a neat little profit, maybe then your wife would feel a little better about it? :)

[Sigh!]

Casca Grossa wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 12:05 pmCut one to CC and add 3 valves

7 tubas. 7 days of the week. One for each day. Just like underwear and socks. You're set.

I did just have a band director friend in Illinois ask me to keep my eyes open for a 105

As far as selling these to schools, the 103 is liked by adult tuba players - who like to stand up and cradle them at gigs, only because they are front-action, but they are really pretty delicate as far as how they are put together, and I can’t easily come up with parts, if a school - to which I may have sold one - trashes one of them.

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Being sort of lazy (or whatever I am), JP makes a nicer version of the 105 than Yamaha (nickel silver slide tubing, and with those really well-made and well-fitting stainless steel pistons) - and with a sturdier case, and it’s just easier to supply those - and accept a modest mark-up - than to work my tail off making a beat up 105 nice enough to sell to a school.
Of course I’m biased, but between the Yamaha 105, the Jupiter copy, the Eastman copy, and the JP copy, (repairing all of them) I judge the JP as the best put-together with the sturdiest case, and the lowest priced.

Your wife was unhappy when you purchased 7 tubas? You are lucky she isn't planning your funeral. I hope you can turn a good profit selling those instruments.

Ace

YorkNumber3 wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 9:58 am Looks like the OP found their outlet.

https://reverb.com/shop/gear-outlet-8135

Seems rather pricey to me.

For quite old horns without being able to test for problems, yes.

LibraryMark wrote: ↑Tue May 10, 2022 10:14 am

YorkNumber3 wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 9:58 am Looks like the OP found their outlet.

https://reverb.com/shop/gear-outlet-8135

Seems rather pricey to me.

Yeah, about double/triple what I’d pay.

matt g wrote: ↑Tue May 10, 2022 3:48 pm

LibraryMark wrote: ↑Tue May 10, 2022 10:14 am
Seems rather pricey to me.

Yeah, about double/triple what I’d pay.

I wouldn't blame a guy for trying, particularly if he needs to "I told you so" his wife.