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Greetings from an English ex-sax player!
I sold my second and last saxophone over 40 years ago at Macaris, London for cash (which I was in desperate need of) and took up the offer of a bass guitar, lead and amp at cost, because the owner felt sorry to only give me £300 for it.
It was my beloved tenor: a Conn Conqueror "Silver Lady", a 30M. I can still picture it clearly in my mind, the lady on the bell, even though I've got these promo shots that my mum saved 😉....
I'm pretty certain the supporting strut (on the neck) was solid silver, but I could be wrong. I'm pretty sure the thumb rest was also solid silver. Does this make sense?
Over the years I've wanted to be reunited with "my" old sax, irrationally as it's someone else's love now. I wonder what life it has had. What gigs it's had, who's played it, who were the bands, has it had knocks, restorations, how many owners, where is it? Ultimately I hope and expect, I suppose, that it has had a good life.
It was also the sax used by Sade for their first proper gig (Heaven, 1983) when I loaned it to their sax player who had a problem with his.
Finally, which are the best resources for info about these saxes? How rare are they in the UK?
A good friend of mine is a sax player so I get to hear her playing her tenor often, but even though I know my dedication is to the bass, I still pine after the one that got away...
I sold my second and last saxophone over 40 years ago at Macaris, London for cash (which I was in desperate need of) and took up the offer of a bass guitar, lead and amp at cost, because the owner felt sorry to only give me £300 for it.
It was my beloved tenor: a Conn Conqueror "Silver Lady", a 30M. I can still picture it clearly in my mind, the lady on the bell, even though I've got these promo shots that my mum saved 😉....
I'm pretty certain the supporting strut (on the neck) was solid silver, but I could be wrong. I'm pretty sure the thumb rest was also solid silver. Does this make sense?
Over the years I've wanted to be reunited with "my" old sax, irrationally as it's someone else's love now. I wonder what life it has had. What gigs it's had, who's played it, who were the bands, has it had knocks, restorations, how many owners, where is it? Ultimately I hope and expect, I suppose, that it has had a good life.
It was also the sax used by Sade for their first proper gig (Heaven, 1983) when I loaned it to their sax player who had a problem with his.
Finally, which are the best resources for info about these saxes? How rare are they in the UK?
A good friend of mine is a sax player so I get to hear her playing her tenor often, but even though I know my dedication is to the bass, I still pine after the one that got away...
