Klarinet Archive - Posting 000264.txt from 1997/01

From: Paul Lindemeyer <paulwl@-----.NET>
Subj: Re: salad-shooter
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 07:24:22 -0500

Peter Stoll wrote:
>
> This sounds like a take-off on the apparently rare and valued Conn
> "Cigar-Cutter" alto sax models someone is always looking for in the AFM
> paper.

Actually you'll find Selmer made the Cigar Cutter (they called it the
Super Sax). They date from the early 1930s and the ones we see today are
almost always altos, rarely tenors.

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