Posted by Rick Denney on July 17, 2002 at 13:59:07:
In Reply to: Re: Are Yorks a good investment? posted by Gus Pratt on July 15, 2002 at 20:16:31:
As to which horn to use as an example of a "pro-model" tuba, the choice was made for me: The York prices were the only ones I had.
It would make the most sense to look at all the prices and get the sense of what pro tubas cost in those days, just as I looked at all the prices of modern tubas to get a sense ($10K) of what a modern pro tuba costs. I'd bet that those Yorks in 1923 were pretty close to that value. They certainly were not a small fraction of it, which is what it would take to equalize the real value.
Rick "who thinks he chose a crummy subject line for this thread" Denney