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Melissa
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Thanks for your input @JayePDX you have some very valid points there.
When I first received this sax I have to be honest in thinking it was related somehow to CA Wunderlich, I guess this was partially because I have a CF Ref 25 trumpet and it has all the traits of the Wunderlich and almost identical to The Arigra Exakta (Anton Riedl) or some of them anyhow, that trumpet is gold plated, hammered bell, art deco valve block, it oozes quality but whomever buys it in the end shall need some strength due to the weight of it. But proof enough that Chas Foote imported from all over Europe, I wonder if he did import globally? Lord help us if he did!
Anyhow, I searched through the Wunderlich alto saxes and found a lot of similarities, but nothing solid, http://bassic-sax.info/blog/?p=34269 I have also seen a Holton alto with very similar G# mechanism though a Paul Buescher also has amazing similarities, but again, nothing exact, that pinkie table of the Geunot is very similar if not identical, that particular sax also had rolled tone holes and the unusual octave mechanism, and I know you say that the feet do not prove anything, but it was those that made me believe it really was of German manufacture as at first glance it screams Kohlert/Keilwerth.
But at the moment I have to agree with @kevgermany in that the engraving is a strong link, that is itself identical in the style of the Guenot, even the Paul Buescher is very similar so I am having to stay with french at the moment.
When I first received this sax I have to be honest in thinking it was related somehow to CA Wunderlich, I guess this was partially because I have a CF Ref 25 trumpet and it has all the traits of the Wunderlich and almost identical to The Arigra Exakta (Anton Riedl) or some of them anyhow, that trumpet is gold plated, hammered bell, art deco valve block, it oozes quality but whomever buys it in the end shall need some strength due to the weight of it. But proof enough that Chas Foote imported from all over Europe, I wonder if he did import globally? Lord help us if he did!
Anyhow, I searched through the Wunderlich alto saxes and found a lot of similarities, but nothing solid, http://bassic-sax.info/blog/?p=34269 I have also seen a Holton alto with very similar G# mechanism though a Paul Buescher also has amazing similarities, but again, nothing exact, that pinkie table of the Geunot is very similar if not identical, that particular sax also had rolled tone holes and the unusual octave mechanism, and I know you say that the feet do not prove anything, but it was those that made me believe it really was of German manufacture as at first glance it screams Kohlert/Keilwerth.
But at the moment I have to agree with @kevgermany in that the engraving is a strong link, that is itself identical in the style of the Guenot, even the Paul Buescher is very similar so I am having to stay with french at the moment.
