Saxophones Dave Walker Saxes

[jazzdoh]

The Dave Walker website seems invisible to Google search... Are they trying to avoid a Christmas rush?

I tried to look for it too but didn't find it, not that I'm in the market for one, I bet they are excellent horns but way too much for me unless I win big on the lottery.

 

[Adrian63]

I'm just baffled as to why somebody would want a thirteen grand gold lacquer job on a horn : as if seven isn't enough already .
I mean what use is it ?

 

[Ivan]

I'm just baffled as to why somebody would want a thirteen grand gold lacquer job on a horn : as if seven isn't enough already .
I mean what use is it ?

Shiny

 

[spike]

not at all because Lenny Pickett does ; in fact I've never heard of Lenny Pickett....dum de dum....

@Adrian63 - Here's something that he's been doing recently. In part reminiscent of the Borneo Horns.

0084 Lenny Pickett John Hadfield Heard by Others — Orenda Records

 

[Adrian63]

Cheers Spike : he's probably been my favourite player for many years . If you haven't heard it check out his solo on " Spanish moon " from the Little Feat live album " waiting for Columbus ".....remarkable : look forward to seeing this new stuff though...

 

[Adrian63]

Oh yeah : that's great @spike : look forward to that after tea !!

 

[Adrian63]

@spike : scratch that man it's the track before Spanish Moon : " mercenary territory " that has the monster solo . Not so much the crazy altissimo at the end but the way LP comes crashing into the solo . At first it seems totally disjointed but as he resolves its just amazing and to take a " risk " like that live is the sign of a superb player ; absolutely confident in his ability but still pushing it !!

 

[MMM]

I tried to look for it too but didn't find it, not that I'm in the market for one, I bet they are excellent horns but way too much for me unless I win big on the lottery.

Look here :

Geneva » Oldroyd Walker Lineage

Geneva Instruments

genevainstruments.com

 

[Adrian63]

Is it me or is this one confusing webpage ? All I seem to get for saxophones is a picture of each : try to access any info it seems to come back to euphoniums and such....no blurb on the horns : clips : nada ?

 

[GCinCT]

Is it me or is this one confusing webpage ? All I seem to get for saxophones is a picture of each : try to access any info it seems to come back to euphoniums and such....no blurb on the horns : clips : nada ?

Doesn't everyone want a euphonium? 😉

 

[Adrian63]

Two for me : how could I resist..

 

[Saxodent]

View: https://youtu.be/8vmdCSSFGe4

 

[jazzdoh]

Look here :

Geneva » Oldroyd Walker Lineage

Geneva Instruments

genevainstruments.com

I did find this site when I was looking but it didn't seem to relate much to the horn that is being posted on in this thread, the OW Lineage tenor.

 

[Jimmymack]

Maybe if you need to ask you don’t deserve one and if you need to ask the price you can’t afford one. They only come in red and yellow anyway, I want a blue one.

 

[Adrian63]

Morning folks...
That's the site I checked out Bri ; kept going back to those euphoniums . He's proving strangely elusive Mr Walker...and no Jimmy you can't have a blue one 😉

 

[Adrian63]

Mr McGill looks happy enough anyhow...

 

[jazzdoh]

Maybe if you need to ask you don’t deserve one and if you need to ask the price you can’t afford one. They only come in red and yellow anyway, I want a blue one.

I can't afford one but everyone knows its the green one that everybody wants.

 

[DavidUK]

Is it me, is it that he's not a very good player, or is it the sax? Listen for 60 seconds:

View: https://youtu.be/8vmdCSSFGe4?t=556


...also, A 5:44 he says it's the only sax in the world to have a one piece bow. In 2001 Stephanhöuser took out a US patent for a one piece bow for their saxophones. I wonder how this OW differs so as to allow its production, or perhaps they have a licence from Stephanhöuser?


Compare with Hanson LX:

View: https://youtu.be/6zJtHvMo2Vk?t=569

 

[thomsax]

In 2001 Stephanhöuser took out a US patent for a one piece bow for their saxophones. I wonder how this OW differs so as to allow its production, or perhaps they have a licence from Stephanhöuser?

I don't think a "one piece bell and bow" needs a patent. Maybe it's how they do a "one piece bell and bow" that's important. Who owns the "one-piece" soprano patent? Maybe the patent is for the method (tools/machines) or dimensions. And probably also designs. I think the guy can play!

 

[DavidUK]

You miss the point. It's patently NOT the only one piece bow on the world.
I asked how it's production differs from the step's patent, not that they couldn't make one if it's differently produced.