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Is it a tad over-priced?
I'd say it was (if anything) UNDER priced!
Some of my friends and colleagues seem to be able to penetrate the thick 'fog of technology' that permeates the PAXMAN website, and have reported to me that the current price of a new Paxman Model 40, Gold brass, lacquered, with a set of extra slides to play in
F (basso)/ F (alto) is about £7000!
By the way, I am really quite underwhelmed about the fact that some dealers, (specially one in the Midlands) have come 'under fire' on this website's previous incarnation because they don't give the prices of there horns on there websites, simply saying POA (price on application). Of course the exceptions to this are the websites of 'Hornplayer.net', the 'HornExchange' and 'Halstead Music' which all give the prices of the horns that they have for sale. The dealer in the Midlands seems to justify his witholding of price information by the somewhat glib assertion that 'stock is changing all the time'....
But, what are we to make of Paxman Ltd who are, compared to e.g. Schmid, Finke and indeed Alexander, somewhat 'coy' about stating the prices of their NEW horns?