On 10 Jan 2011, Matthew Boris wrote: > Starting bid is $899, currently 0 bids and almost 7 days left. > I don't _think_ I'm in the market at this point, but is this a decent > deal? Or is the fact that we don't know how long it's been unplayed > make it a no-go, or at least an assumption of some major re-fettling > and replacing pads, tweaking keys, etc?
It's 5 tuning bead set - "complicated" in David's terminology. Check his website for equivalent new prices. You could ask the seller for the serial number, which should be stamped on the low E key. It looks fairly recent (size of chanter foot + style of chanter astragals) but the number would help. 500....about 1981 1000 - around 1987 2000 about mid 90s He's now in the high 3000's. May even have reached 4000. If there is no number it's very early, but I don't think so, from the pics. Hope this helps Julia To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
