> I mean, who ever heard of the baritone horn?

<raises hand> My dad owned one when I was a kid, and I played it in elementary school band for a couple-three years. It's still in the family -- my sister all but demanded it when my dad passed away in 2009, and to the best of my knowledge she has it to this day, even though she's primarily a keyboardist.

That said, yours is in better condition, mostly, than ours is -- the bell on ours had seen better years and was a bit crumpled around the edge. And it too had lost all its lacquer; the only places it still shone was where my hands (emitting my metal-eating acidic sweat) regularly gripped it.

-- Bob
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My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We kill only out of personal spite.