Beginner Saxes Draft for comment: Pan American Saxophone History

[Greychatter]

I have a Pan Am 64M alto serial number 46676, that Badenia says was made in the 1930s and it has a microtuner neck, unlike the Conn design and a bit different from the pics in the posts above.. Years ago I posted a raft of photos of it on SOTW.
Here's the link to those photos:
https://www.saxontheweb.net/media/albums/pan-american-alto-model-64m-by-conn.884/
If that doesn't work I can try to repost some of those pics here. Meanwhile, here is the neck and microtuner.View attachment 37506View attachment 37505

Thanks for posting. That would be the "simplified" microtuner Pan Am was known to use on some altos. It's notable for the external thumbscrew. And thanks for the shot of the Pa't Applied For stamp. That's news to me. (I personally don't have a sax with that device, although my late '41/early '42 has the awesome Eagle and Globe engraving like yours.)

 

[PigSquealer]

Apologies... I was shuffling files yesterday and forgot to repost. Yes, there's a new draft you can find here: Haphazard_Guide_to_Pan_American_Saxophones_v7.pdf

Is there a final draft after this ?

 

[Greychatter]

Is there a final draft after this ?

I'm working on one now... I'd call it near final, as I'm into the tweaking / fine tuning stage. I have one contributor who's still working on some new content this weekend. Once I get that, I'll post a "final candidate."

 

[Greychatter]

I've posted an update here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/...ouid=114357177402561107154&rtpof=true&sd=true. This version has been subjected to a lot of clean up and continuity work. I'm also still looking forward to an updated piece on the Sears Supertone stencils. Now, I'm working on downloading PDFs of every single web page I'm using for references -- I think this is necessary as URLs are not permanent sources. Between the Wayback Machine and my collection of PDFs I hope we'll have them covered.