BWPerdue
1 post
Nov 14, 2009
2:34 PM
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Hello! I hope this is okay to post here. If I'm breaking etiquette, please feel free to delete the post. I found the forum doing a Google search.
Anyway, through family, I have an old (early 60s) KOCH 40 reed diatonic chromatic harmonica with its original box. I'd like to sell it, but I have no idea what it's worth. It looks like new ones are about $100, but I don't know much else. Anyone?
Looks just like this:
http://www.g6pje.fsnet.co.uk/KOCH_Diatonic_Chromatic_C_300x212.jpg
Thanks in advance!
Last Edited by on Nov 14, 2009 2:35 PM
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tookatooka
770 posts
Nov 14, 2009
3:16 PM
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Have you tried looking for similar items on Ebay?
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Gwythion
15 posts
Nov 14, 2009
3:35 PM
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I have 3 of these and I probably paid less than a round of drinks for all of them together.
Why not have a go at learning your new instrument instead?
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BWPerdue
2 posts
Nov 14, 2009
3:37 PM
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Yeah, the ones there were either new and about $100, or not bid up past $10 or so yet.
Would $50 be appropriate? And are there other places than eBay that specialize in this kind of thing?
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BWPerdue
3 posts
Nov 14, 2009
3:42 PM
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Yeah, I know. I really try to avoid eBay and PayPal though for, well, ideological reasons.
Plus, I lose 12% on it.
Last Edited by on Nov 14, 2009 3:47 PM
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BWPerdue
4 posts
Nov 14, 2009
3:46 PM
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Gwythion,
Musical instruments really just aren't my thing. I've had this in my dresser for probably ten years and never had a desire to play it. I'd rather just sell it to someone who would use it.
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tookatooka
771 posts
Nov 14, 2009
3:59 PM
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How can you lose 12% if it's been lying neglected for the past ten years? Surely whatever you get is a bonus. Why not find a musical kid to give it to?
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BWPerdue
5 posts
Nov 14, 2009
4:05 PM
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tookatooka,
You make a good point when you put it that way, about the 12%. :)
However, to your other point, if I knew of someone who could use it, they would have it by now.
I was just looking for a ballpark value, is all.
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tookatooka
772 posts
Nov 14, 2009
4:28 PM
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"I was just looking for a ballpark value." That's the problem, someone desperate may be willing to pay you $200 for it, the trouble you have is finding where and who that someone may be. Sometimes the effort required to do that is simply not worth the reward. I'd go the eBay route and be done with it.
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BWPerdue
6 posts
Nov 14, 2009
4:35 PM
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Fair enough. Thanks for your time! :)
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nacoran
395 posts
Nov 14, 2009
5:28 PM
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The higher price you'd get at an auction like e-bay probably more than makes up for the fee.
And on reread- What's a diatonic chromatic? Do you just mean a 10-holed chromatic?
Last Edited by on Nov 14, 2009 6:13 PM
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lumpy wafflesquirt
124 posts
Nov 15, 2009
7:35 AM
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It's a ten hole slide harp
the reeds are set out like a diatonic but it has a slide to put the notes up a half tone. So it isn't a true chromati. I have one and it tooka long time befor I realised this, and I never could work out why the hole nubers in my book for chromatic haro didn't work on this one. :^(
one day I'll work out how to play the thing.
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