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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 00:20:38 -0400
From: Dave Robinson <jazzteachr@sysnet.net>
Subject: Re: Bass Sax du jour...
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com"Bass sax du jour" indeed! Bass saxes used to be a rarity; now it seems
they're everywhere. For a bass sax nut like me that's great, but where
the heck are all these vintage instruments coming from? Where were they
years ago when bass saxes were so hard to find?DR
Grant Green wrote:
> OK, now its "Bass sax for sale of the day", at
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=68105402.
>
---------------------------------------------------------Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 00:28:11 -0800 (PST)
From: bj914@scn.org (John Micheal Bush)
Subject: Re: Bass Sax du jour...
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com
>
>"Bass sax du jour" indeed! Bass saxes used to be a rarity; now it seems
>they're everywhere. For a bass sax nut like me that's great, but where
>the heck are all these vintage instruments coming from? Where were they
>years ago when bass saxes were so hard to find?I would guess that the new "information superhighway" is the cause. Not
only are people communicating their desire to sell so much more
effectively with EBay and the rest of the web, and newsgroups and mailing
lists like this, but bass sax owners are trying to scrape up the money to
buy things they are seeing for sale on the net like ophicleides,
sarrusaphones, and racketts.
John--
Imperial Space Cowboy
But, good Lord, what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmetic if
I have my own reasons for disliking them, including the one about two and
two making four! - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
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