Author: Don Berger
Date: 2004-10-08 14:03
What an interesting discussion of our GREAT horns. My OLD M 6 tenor is my son/grandson's hands, I've INSTRUCTED them to NOT !!! sell it. If they should need money, just let me know ! I bot it for $250 at a pawn in Lansing MI back in the 60's, in very bad shape, but with a PRO $400 overhaul , the lacquer was so bad that Jay DeGeer [Tulsa] HAD to re-do it , it still plays/sounds fine, but I'm small and just better on the alto. If anyone is interested in "set-screw" Proliferation, my Leblanc ["Buck Rogers", M 100?] alto, having fork fingerings available for almost every note !! has nearly one on every key, and a book of tune-up instructions for techs, start at bottom and work up !!, which I keep with a copy of Leon Leb's US Patent #3,136,200 [for future generations, its RARE and good also !] . Selmer has several pats also on their BA, Super, S Action, M6 series, development [from back in the ?30's?] which is well discussed in "The Brass and Saxophone Book". I believe its still available from B&N, Amaz, Walden etc, inexpensive ! Gosh, how I go on, but I enjoy our exchanges greatly. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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