Forwarded by request (apologies to those of you who get this multiple
times...)

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Grant,

I've been wanting to sell my Conn EEb contrabass sarrusophone ever
since I got my Tubax. Ordinarily, I would go the ebay route but I'd
rather not have to ship anything that big.

Earlier this year I sold one of my three(!) bass saxes by posting a
notice on the Bass Sax Co-op site. I sold it to another Bass Sax
forum member who was vacationing in Florida and he picked up the
instrument in person. It worked out perfectly for everyone involved.
I'd like to try to do the same with my Sarrusophone on your
contrabass site, if that is permissible.

My Conn is one of the Sarrusophones made for the army in the 1920s,
and it is marked USQMC (or G) for United States Quarter Master Corps
(or General). It was probably originally bare brass but it was
polished and lacquered later. The lacquer is about 75%, and the horn
looks pretty good.

There are quite a few small dents but nothing really bad. The
mechanism is a bit sloppy in places, and the bocal has some unsightly
repairs. However, there are no missing parts, everything works, and
it plays right now.

The good stuff is it comes with an original Conn single reed
Sarrusophone mouthpiece in exceedingly good condition that works very
well, using alto sax reeds. It also comes with a real contrabass
sarrusophone reed which is old but completely intact to use as a
model. The reed actually still plays. I'm also including a
contrabass bassoon reed and an old fingering chart for this horn. The
case is original, very dingy, but structurally sound and the hardware
works.

I've been watching sarrusophone sales for a few years now, and I think
market value for my horn is $5,000+ but I'll take $4,000 if I don't
have to ship it. I'd rather not sell for less than that.

I'm attaching some photos of the sarrusophone. I'll be taking more
photos as soon as possible, and I'll be glad to specifically
photograph any part of the horn anyone might want to see.

I live near Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Thanks, Randy Emerick (saxtek at
A O L dot com).
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I've uploaded the pictures to:
http://www.contrabass.com/2007/Sarrusophone1.jpg,
http://www.contrabass.com/2007/Sarrussophone2.jpg, and
http://www.contrabass.com/2007/Sarrusophone3.jpg.

Enjoy!