Not a 861, but rather…

[MiBrassFS]

A ragged YCB-661 with a “LEVER HOLDER” part number H6941630 from a YCB861. Missing some other parts, lots of wear, but it exists, so that’s something…

I don’t remember Yamaha recycling part numbers, but maybe it’s a mystery. Definitely early with the flipped 5th.

Looks like Gojira breathed on it a few times.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/286049514852

[arpthark]

3/4 step 5th valve...?

[bloke]

It's hard to believe that someone would be willing to offer that at such an incredible price.

[MiBrassFS]

3/4 step 5th valve...?

Oddly enough, I think it sports the standard whole step 5th. Not a flat whole step, just a whole step. If ya want it flat, ya gotta pull out both parts of the compound slide…

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Looky here, same horn, different seller?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/405217036133

[Mary Ann]

Yup -- if you bite on his, he buys the other one and immediately resells to you with the few hundred profit. It's in his feedback that he does that on a regular basis. Flipper.

[MiBrassFS]

Second one now ended. “Error in listing.”

Anyway… eBay is a game I’m not interested in playing. It’s interesting sometimes to see what’s being sold.

[Mary Ann]

I did rather well a couple times -- got my oboe and my Sterling euph at good prices and both excellent instruments. The oboe was almost a steal, because it wasn't a Loree but a Rigoutat. Both those purchases were pre- covid by years, and things everywhere have, um, changed. I've even recently found used-car-salesman techniques being used for medical practices: "We won't tell you if we take Medicare (they don't) but come on in for an evaluation so we can talk you into spending a bunch of money here."