Interesting day (it led me to actually contribute)

I've been in reactive mode since some nasty incidents, but I gotta share this.

Interesting day today.

My horoscope for today read in part that I should look at/into antiques. So when I caught a flea market from the window of the bus into Manhattan, I went and checked out the annual Hells Kitchen flea market.

There was a trumpet there: silver in color and sleek and slimine that caught my eye. Dude wanted $100. It had a stuck valve and a slightly crushed middle valve pipey-thing and the mouthpiece-end was bent. But something TOLD me to buy it.

I offered him $20. He wanted $60. I said $30. He asked for $50. My final offer was $40. He declined, I started to walk away, he followed.

So I walked out of there carrying it.

By the time I'd walked four blocks, I'd straightened the valve and unstuck it by hand, and straightened out the tubing at the mouthpiece. I have EXTREMELY strong hands and bent it carefully like lead.

So I decide "dad gummit, might as well pick up an intro book on trumpet" and grabbed an $8,99 Essentials 2000 book at Sam Ash. While I was there the staff approached me and asked where I had obtained the instrument I was holding.

He asks if he can check it out, I tell him he can play it if he wishes, as I cannot.

He brings it to his lips and it sounds rich. Wow. Confirms it's a Bflat, but it's a "peashooter" style, and has a strange stencil but no real maker markings.

He advises me, STRONGLY, to go online and find out what the fuck I bought. I do, and find out I have a very very rare Huller pre WWII trumpet. It apparently can convert to a C trumpet from a B flat.

It is worth much more than $40, but as to the final price, that's up to an appraiser.

thats awesome :D

rock on. take good care of her. have you named it yet?

Nope.

thats awesome bp! i do have one question though....did you pay the forty or did you just walk out with it?

thats cool (:
I got rear-ended by an escalade.... lets trade days (:

ooh, can I trade you PMH?

well today actually didn't totally suck hard.

But I'd love to destroy an escalade and then get the fucker's insurance to pay for my old POS.

Oh no Malcolm,I paid for it.

Cool, so are we gonna see you on Antique Roadshow anytime soon?

No, I have a no-face show policy.

SHHHH its a fine face.

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Originally Posted by Bikerpunk

Oh no Malcolm,I paid for it.

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Awesomes, was just making sure.

that's a bonny of a find you got there, bp, especially for as little as you talked down the price. I'm gonna have to go flea marketing with you next time i go flea marketing lol:thumb:

Get you to NYC, and you I'd actually meet with. You're about the only one I would.

Wow! Congratulations!

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Originally Posted by Bikerpunk

Get you to NYC, and you I'd actually meet with. You're about the only one I would.

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lol oh irony of ironies, i was actually in new york for a bit there a few years back.
Im still a bit on the travel shy point nowadays. but yeah, flea marketing kicks ass. when i live din texas, we used to go to this huge ass outdoor bazar just outside of arlington (where i lived) and you could buy practicaly anything yuo wanted there. well, as long as it was reasonably legal i mean.

they ahve one or two of em out here too including an indoor one but i dont like people out here, they creep me out. especially the people watchers cus they dont so much as watch but stare.

If I ever end up in Az, I'll look up the flea marketing there.

coolness.