kevgermany
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Does anyone know much about the Adolphe Sax models produced by Adolphe Sax/Selmer, shortly after the takeover?
My teacher's just bought an early (s/n 12x) one of these, with a Selmer S/n 59xx, which'd date it to around 1927, just before the Selmer buy out if the serial number lists are correct.
Doesn't look like any of the Selmers of the time, nearest I could see was a pre-buy out tenor on saxpics from a few years earlier. Have scratched around on SOTW, saxpics, bassic sax, but couldn't really get much info, except that the first saxes from this run were made using some (all?) parts from existing A Sax stock, before switching to Selmer parts and that all carried two serial numbers, a selmer one in small punch marks below the D tone hole, and a new series Sax serial number on the bell. Lovely sax, with the AE Sax curvy wire guards, auto octave mechanism, pearls, rollers. Body looks more Sax than Selmer, if the joint rings are anything to go by. Sounds good as well, very Selmerish, and plays nicely/in tune on an S80 mouthpiece. Mechanics are, apparantly really nice as well.
Am trying to trace more history/pics of these saxes from around that serial number. Quite a few later serial number pics on saxpics, but these appear to be more Selmer than anything else.
My teacher's just bought an early (s/n 12x) one of these, with a Selmer S/n 59xx, which'd date it to around 1927, just before the Selmer buy out if the serial number lists are correct.
Doesn't look like any of the Selmers of the time, nearest I could see was a pre-buy out tenor on saxpics from a few years earlier. Have scratched around on SOTW, saxpics, bassic sax, but couldn't really get much info, except that the first saxes from this run were made using some (all?) parts from existing A Sax stock, before switching to Selmer parts and that all carried two serial numbers, a selmer one in small punch marks below the D tone hole, and a new series Sax serial number on the bell. Lovely sax, with the AE Sax curvy wire guards, auto octave mechanism, pearls, rollers. Body looks more Sax than Selmer, if the joint rings are anything to go by. Sounds good as well, very Selmerish, and plays nicely/in tune on an S80 mouthpiece. Mechanics are, apparantly really nice as well.
Am trying to trace more history/pics of these saxes from around that serial number. Quite a few later serial number pics on saxpics, but these appear to be more Selmer than anything else.