{"id":56,"date":"2009-07-31T16:38:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T23:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/version5\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2025-08-12T11:22:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T18:22:35","slug":"why-i-bought-a-bass","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/version5\/bass-sax-info\/my-personal-bass-sax-story\/why-i-bought-a-bass\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Bought A Bass"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOne day I happened to come across an ad for a vintage bass sax on the Sax On The Web site. I thought owning a bass sax would be an interesting possibility, and that it might be a fun horn to play in the sax ensemble I was in at the time.<\/p>\n

After giving it a great deal of thought, I decided I would buy the horn. I contacted the seller, Paul Coats, and let him know that I would like to get the bass. A number of other people had also been in touch with him about it, but luckily I was the first person to commit to buying it.<\/p>\n

The next stage was to figure out the logistics. How would I get a fragile 80 year-old horn back to Eastern Canada safely from Louisiana?<\/p>\n

I thought about driving to New Orleans, but dismissed the idea when it became obvious that it would take too much time and money. I needed a safe way to get the horn home. I finally decided to drive to Bangor, Maine and fly from there via Cincinnati to New Orleans.<\/p>\n

I purchased two return tickets so I could bring the bass back without having to put it into the cargo hold of a plane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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