Klarinet Archive - Posting 000367.txt from 1999/12

From: Don Longacre <nw2v@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] saxophones ?
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:17:23 -0500

David Niethamer writes:

>I was able to do some detective work on my father's old
>1925 Conn tenor which I played through high school and college.

Hope you held onto that tenor. You doubtlessly know virtually any
antique saxophone is highly prized. I think the Selmer Mark VI fad
is about a substantially well-built saxophone and although this
quality is contributory, it is not singularly its acoustic quality
that makes it so. Two years ago a Mark VI ran about $2,000 now,
about $3-3,3500. I had a Conn alto,tenor and clarinet back in 1943.
I bought the tenor new for $250.00 (undiscounted music store price).

Someday an instrument manufacturer is going to go back into quality
saxophones and get Mr Sax's instrument sounding right by putting
some metal in it and stop farming out the work to the natives on
Bora Bora or somesuch place. In clarinets, people like Eaton, Rossi
and Patricola aren't setting the corporate world on fire but they're
still building instruments the old fashioned way.

By the way, David, I believe I read on one of the saxophone pages that
the "M" was an arbitrary letter selected to denote model, i.e. M6, M10,
M16 etc.

Don Longacre nw2v@-----.com

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