

#AMATI SAXOPHONE SERIAL NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBERS#
BRASS Besson brass instruments (excluding trombones) serial numbers below 124350 Besson trombones serial numbers below 124350 Distin/Boosey & Co. There’s a great article on Saxontheweb if you want to know more.ĭo you own a Dearman? Do you play it out. Boosey & Hawkes/Rudall Carte woodwind serial numbers 68956-595973 Buffet Crampon soprano clarinets, Harmony clarinets, saxophones and oboes. Ease of Fingering – Well balanced, interesting flat left pinky keys.Place of Manufacture – Czechoslovakia or Germany.Also some decorative engraving on the bell. Even if you bought it in for I have this saxophone that was in some ladies house i helped remove trash from and i cant find a make or model just engravings of the number 1 by the neck, the serial number, and the words germany east on the upper neck. However it would be great for big band work – just not really a screamer. An excellent tenor is the Jupiter intermediate sax. I haven’t played this much since acquiring it, as it lacks the sophistication of my first line horns. I’ll demonstrate the sound in my video from the saxachronic chamber. The saxophone came with a metal Selmer mouthpiece with a self-locking metal ligature (see picture). It has a solid, although not heavy, feel about it and plays relatively well in both octaves. Dallas were more famous as an outlet for Grafton saxophones of course. I haven’t been able to find out which company made this stencil, although other owner suggest Amati ADLER or even Huller. It is certainly a European stencil, although not (in my opinion) by Keilwerth, who would always stamp their saxophones with the JK mark (even on the Selmer Pensylvannia Special stencils). It has a ‘nail file’ G# key and rolled tone-holes – like earlier Conn’s. It’s a modern instrument (all lower tone holes are on the right of the instrument). It is market ‘Foreign’ on the bell – something typical of post-imperial Britain in the late 1940s or early 1950s perhaps. First off, here is a list of serial numbers found on Conn.
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The InstrumentįInished in silver-plate, this was ‘stenciled’ for Dearman, which was a UK company owned by Dallas. CG Conn Saxophone serial number 128,732 1924-25, we believe this is a New Wonder series I. I know Dallas Arbiter as a UK importer of guitars in the 1970s and it’s nice to have an example of the company’s earlier activities with brass instruments. He knows that my collection spans all types of saxophone and was right that I’d go for the art deco look and feel of this one. I bought this for from my excellent saxophone doer-upper in 2006.
