eBay Picks Wed. Sept 12th 2007

Well I have been scanning eBay for some good or interesting deals for you and here is what I have found.

Here is a couple of hot hot hot selling items that any Fender fan would kill for. A Fender Custom Shop 20th Anniversary ZIPPO Lighter and a Jackson Guitar Jenna Jameson Zippo Lighter.

The above two items are from a very trusted seller.

To compliment your new lighter why not drop more than $18,000.00 on a Fender Eddie Van Halen EVH FRANKENSTEIN Replica Guitar. The seller claims they only made 180. I wonder why? Anyway this would be for a collector.

Since school is starting up I know that there are lots of parents looking for good deals on instruments for band so here are a few deals I found on eBay.

a YAMAHA 225NII Silver Nickel Plate Flute Band Instrument. From what I can see this instrument is in excellent condition. The pads, from what I can see of them are almost new. There are no bent rods and the finish looks good, Plus the seller has lots of feedbacks and a 100% rating.

Buying a trombone can be a tricky thing especially a used one. The thin brass of the trombone slide makes it the most delicate instrument in the band room. It is almost impossible to see damage when you have the instrument in your hands much less from a picture. Even the smallest dent in the slide will be noticed only when you go to play it and hamper learning. A way to find those unseen dents is to use a thin soft cloth and then run it up and down the inner and outer slides slowly to find those unseen dents. So since we only have pictures to go by on eBay I will recommend new. So....

I was going to find a good deal on a new trombone but it became apparent that it was really more difficult than expected. I tried eBay, Amazon and finally Musicians Friend before finding an acceptable product that your band director would approve of. Sellers on eBay are spamming the Yamaha name by adding a Yamaha maintenance kit in the title of the listing so there are really no new Yamaha trombones listed. The product on Amazon is just junk so I finally ended up a Musicians Friend and found a Bach TB200 Intermediate Trombone that can be found at Hot Buys - Band and Orchestra. You will have to drill down to Brass then trombones but this is a very solid instrument and will give any student a great start.

I hope that someone makes use of this.