Holton Symphony Bass on Ebay

[RoscoTrombone]

Just spotted this, looks an interesting intrument and I've never seen a trigger mechanism like that before.

The seller makes wonderful use of the English language in his description of it...worth £1500 though?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Old-Holton-S ... 890.l49292

Ross

[FOSSIL]

It's a collector Ross....probably smaller bore. Fair price for a very tidy antique....I doubt that it would be a useful player. I would love to know the specs.

Chris

[spencercarran]

Best info I can find for a similar model is https://horn-u-copia.net/cgi-bin/yabb2/ ... 47333089/1 which claims 9" bell and Doug Yeo's article citing 0.530 bores in Holton basses of around the right time period.

Looks very interesting, would love to toot on it. Can't imagine finding a practical use for it or spending that kind of money (since I currently have neither the inclination nor the resources to take up collecting as a hobby).

[BGuttman]

This is a rather old instrument.

The friction fit between bell and slide means you have to be careful moving it around, especially inserting and removing mutes.

The flat wrap F-attachment means it cannot be adjusted to flat E to get low B natural.

It is in very nice condition and would probably be worth the 1700 pounds to a collector.

As a daily driver? No.

[sf105]

The vendor deals in older instruments. Incidentally, it's marked up with an inscription that looks like "Bay Rdrk - Inv. Nr. 9138"