Quoting Barbara Hunn: > > > Long story short, I don't have a horn to play right now.
[snip] > > Would I be better off renting from a local shop if they have horns > available, or buying this horn off ebay while I save up? I would not buy a horn off eBay unless I knew the seller personally. There are just too many things that can go wrong buying a horn that way. IMHO, online pictures, on eBay and elsewhere, serve chiefly to prove (maybe!) that the seller actually has the item being offered for sale; few if any such pictures give sufficient detail to show all the flaws. In the overwhelming majority of cases I believe this is owing to the difficulties of lighting a horn so that flaws are visible, not because of a desire to deceive. At least at a local shop you could try the horn and see how it is before you rent it. Personally, if I were going to buy a horn at long distance, I would find a contender someplace like hornplayer.net. Then I'd find a pro or maybe graduate student in the area where the horn is to try it out for me (in exchange for appropriate remuneration, of course). A horn from eBay just has too much potential to be a pig in a poke, as far as I'm concerned. HTH. Howard Sanner [email protected] _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
