Klarinet Archive - Posting 000380.txt from 1999/12

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] saxophones ?
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 22:14:40 -0500

At 01:17 PM 12/13/1999 -0500, Don Longacre wrote:
>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.
>
The pro horns, like the Selmer Paris models, Yamaha Pro Customs, etc., are
very heavily built, with annealed bells and such. The Selmers are the
R-13's of the saxophone world, the standard by which the others are judged.

>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.
>
But those designations were written with the "M" at the end, as in 6M, 10M,
16M.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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