{"id":4150,"date":"2008-12-29T10:23:50","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T17:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=4150"},"modified":"2009-08-07T22:40:17","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T05:40:17","slug":"extra-extra-reed-all-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2008\/extra-extra-reed-all-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Extra, Extra, Reed All About It…"},"content":{"rendered":"

All this talk yesterday about eBay, got me thinking about something I saw last month on the Italian version of the popular on-line auction site. Someone on SOTW<\/a> mentioned that they had seen a box of reeds for $800 US<\/a>. So like a lemming, I too had to check it out.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, a seller was peddling a box of Coleman Hawkins tenor sax reeds for $800.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Source: eBay.it<\/h6>\n

Now sure, this wasn’t just any ordinary box. It wasn’t like those old, brown, cardboard box Ricos we can still find if we’re lucky. This box was made of wood! Here is what the seller said about\u00a0the valuable article he was willing to part with:<\/p>\n

Now admittedly I am being a blatant show off. I have the most extraordinary, coolest, rarest and slickest museum-quality box of saxophone reeds on the planet. Despite the graffiti, here is genuine box of Coleman Hawkins tenor sax reeds!! ” The All Purpose Reed” and Swing–Symphony–Solo”.” They are in a wood cigar style reed size box, probably cedar wood. If you are a hard core Colman Hawkins disciple, you simply MUST have these, and I defy y’all to show me a cooler box reeds!! There are about 18 reeds left in the box in excellent condition. Now of course Body and Soul is gonna sound better with these magic reeds! I found these a while back in an old music store and don’t really think I should sell them, but truth be told, the music is not in your horn, reed, mouthpiece or ligature. Its inside you. S&H 6.00 in the USA w full insurance, slightly more for overseas. Thanks and please see my other outrageously hip auctions this week. Payment by personal check, bank check, paypal ok only by ECHECK. Thank you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Reeds<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Source: eBay.it<\/h6>\n

\u00a0\"Coleman<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Source: eBay.it<\/h6>\n

\"Reed<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Source: eBay.it<\/h6>\n

\"Reed<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Source: eBay.it<\/h6>\n

Now my German doesn’t work very well in helping to decipher Italian, and using the Google translation page didn’t net me much more than I already figured out by looking at the Italian eBay page. But it appears that the reeds didn’t sell.<\/p>\n

No one else apparently saw the value in these reeds & their \u00fcber kewl box\u00a0that this seller did. So the seller, who was located in New York BTW, will get to hold on to his $800 box of Coleman Hawkins 3\u00bd tenor reeds a while longer. Well good for him. It appears that he at least sees the value of his collectible.<\/p>\n

Perhaps one day a music museum will come knocking on his door offering him big $’s for his prized reeds. I hope he’s keeping them in a hermetically sealed container, with just the right amount of humidity to maintain the condition of both the reeds and the box. It would be a shame if these vintage gems were to fall into\u00a0poor condition due to improper storage.\u00a0\"sad-smiley-021\"<\/p>\n

My only regret is that I just spent\u00a0roughly the same amount of money getting\u00a0my 10M restored. If only I hadn’t, I could have bought this box of reeds instead. I’m sure that if I’d used these reeds on either one of my\u00a0other tenors, I wouldn’t have needed another sax! \"winking0004\"<\/p>\n

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…this is just my blog<\/em>. <\/span> My \u201creal\u201d <\/b> website is<\/span> www.bassic-sax.info.<\/a> If you\u2019re looking for <\/span> sax info<\/strong>,<\/span> you should check it out too.<\/span>There\u2019s lots<\/em> there! <\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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