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06-27-2004, 09:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Panamá, republic of Panama | |  Buying a DB in HAVANA (Cuba)
 Hello To all... recently I had a business trip to Havana, and notice several musicians performing in clubs and streets with European Basses (very Old). Did not have time to ask how much, when, how, etc... I´m thinking of coming back. Any Advice? I may come down with my Luthier (Due to Mileage Accrual, Thanks ONEPASS).
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06-28-2004, 04:05 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Laguna Beach, CA | | | DB in Havana
I'm not clear - you mean you are trying to get them to sell their instruments to you? Hmmm... (wheels are turning). |
06-28-2004, 07:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Panamá, republic of Panama | | | DB
Yep...
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06-29-2004, 12:51 AM
| | | | This is kinda guessing, but you might have to get them into the U.S. (if that's where you're going) through Mexico or Canada or something - which would be a serious hassle, lots of bux shipping the things all over hell, plus everybody is going to want their chunk in taxes.
I would think that there are lawyers that specialize in import/export laws. Time to hit the yellow pages? |
06-29-2004, 12:53 AM
| | | | I see you're in Panama. This might be less complicated than the U.S.
Hey, were you at the Danilo Perez concert right after the U.S. extraction of Noriega by any chance? |
06-29-2004, 03:24 PM
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Yep. I was here. Pretty Funny Stuff. Danilo best known as Cholo, I have attended one clinic, he´s a hell of a musician.
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06-29-2004, 03:32 PM
| | banned | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NYC, LI too | | | I'm a customs broker who can give some advice here.
Don't do it. Taxes, shipping, breakage.... your only hope is to take it on the plane with you and have a customs broker meet you at the airport and let them sort out the documents. Not an easy way to grab a bass. Not suggested. With all the charges added up, it may cost as much as the bass.
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06-29-2004, 03:58 PM
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Originally Posted by ejuzek Yep. I was here. Pretty Funny Stuff. Danilo best known as Cholo, I have attended one clinic, he´s a hell of a musician. | I was down there with him (and Jorge Rossy) to do a series of concerts and got there the night before it invasion started. We got stuck there for four or five weeks. We did finally end up playing at some club after things settled down. I have no idea what the name of the place was, but it was a magical evening! |
07-19-2004, 11:46 PM
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Developer: iGigBook® | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Peoples Republic of Brooklyn | | | If I got to Cuba with a Double Bass and return with a different one, how would anyone but me and the person that I swapped with know the difference, especially since the bass was not manufactured in Cuba? |
07-20-2004, 03:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Phil Smith If I got to Cuba with a Double Bass and return with a different one, how would anyone but me and the person that I swapped with know the difference, especially since the bass was not manufactured in Cuba? | Great idea Phil...time to go to Cuba with a Palatino or another CCB...
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