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<blockquote data-quote="mark_addy" data-source="post: 564578" data-attributes="member: 10006"><p>I saw your original post and thought &#039;that&#039;s a lot of money!&#039;.&nbsp; My alto is a 1920s True Tone, and I really like it.&nbsp; I bought it a long time ago (before the internet) when 200 quid for an instrument, when I was borrowing one at the time, was 100 quid less than they generally cost, so I bought it, privately.&nbsp; It came with a rather chewed Selmer Soloist &#039;E&#039; which I liked straight away, though it was a long time later (thanks to the internet) that I found that other people liked them too.&nbsp; These days there is also a Chinese who-knows-what alto hanging around here, which at 80 quid (from a shop!) was really really cheap.&nbsp; I like it as much as the Buescher, really; on the plus side the keywork is not worn out and rattly; on the minus it isn&#039;t very cool.&nbsp; Except for some odd reason it has a Selmer neck on it, which is why I noticed it.&nbsp; For some reason the Soloist mouthpiece doesn&#039;t work as well on it as it does on the Buescher.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think you have to spend a lot of money.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="mark_addy, post: 564578, member: 10006"] I saw your original post and thought 'that's a lot of money!'. My alto is a 1920s True Tone, and I really like it. I bought it a long time ago (before the internet) when 200 quid for an instrument, when I was borrowing one at the time, was 100 quid less than they generally cost, so I bought it, privately. It came with a rather chewed Selmer Soloist 'E' which I liked straight away, though it was a long time later (thanks to the internet) that I found that other people liked them too. These days there is also a Chinese who-knows-what alto hanging around here, which at 80 quid (from a shop!) was really really cheap. I like it as much as the Buescher, really; on the plus side the keywork is not worn out and rattly; on the minus it isn't very cool. Except for some odd reason it has a Selmer neck on it, which is why I noticed it. For some reason the Soloist mouthpiece doesn't work as well on it as it does on the Buescher. I don't think you have to spend a lot of money. [/QUOTE]

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