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Author: Jon
Date: 2004-04-22 05:26
HI yall i was wondering I have an altosaxaphone in b flat it is a vito from japan and i was wondering how much it would bring. The manager of a music store said 1000 but i feel like i was being ripped cause he would have turned around and sold it for more. My alto is in perfect condition and all the keys are in mint condition there is 1 small dent underneath the bell but it isnt visible. I am the only owner and it has a brand new hard case molded around it with a neckstrap 2 reeds a new mouthpiec and and old ligurature. I played the alto for a small time and eventually moved to tenor but i still take my alto in for tunes every once in a while.
thanks for all your help
musically yours,
JON K.
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Author: Gnomon (Eoin McAuley)
Date: 2004-04-22 07:44
The Alto Saxophone is in Eb, not Bb. If yours is in Bb, it is a tenor or soprano saxophone.
It sounds to me as if your saxophone is worth a few hundred dollars.
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Author: Carolyn
Date: 2004-04-22 11:43
Vito saxes are student models, so you won't get very much for them.
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Author: JfW
Date: 2004-04-22 14:16
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HI yall i was wondering I have an altosaxaphone in b flat it is a vito from japan and i was wondering how much it would bring. The manager of a music store said 1000
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Keep in mind, you'd have a hard time selling a horn like that for $1000 as a private seller, except perhaps to the unwary. A well used Vito student alto saxophone (which is what the Vito is) is sellable at about $450 in playing condition from a retail outlet and a gently used one (which is what yours is) may fetch $600. A private seller would get less. Being that some used Yanagisawa Altos can be had for around a $1000, and are much better horns, no retail person familiar with horn value would ever give you $1000 (expecially since they can get Vitos from their distributor for less, brand new).
If you are looking to trade up, and the manager was willing to give you $500 for it in cash or credit, you should jump on the opportunity. You'll get less than half of that from ebay. When the manager was talking about how much your Vito was worth, he was probably contemplating the absolute *most* the store could sell it for, and it would likely sit there for awhile before being priced down.
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Author: Alistair Scott
Date: 2004-04-28 14:22
The VITO student alto is a Yamaha YAS 23 - The tenor is a YTS 23 and both are exactly the same quality as the YAMAHAS.
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Author: siobhan
Date: 2005-03-05 19:38
i was worndering if you could send me a fingering chart that has really high notes because the one we were given in band class dosnt go high enough of the song incatation and dance
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