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<blockquote data-quote="thomsax" data-source="post: 497272" data-attributes="member: 17">If I remember right (Japp Kool&#039;s book; &quot;Das Saxophon&quot;) around 1930&nbsp; 1 million (from 1850) saxes hade been made worldwide. C 800 000 saxophones were built by american manufacors. Beside Elkhart, saxes were made in Cleveland (Ohio), Chicago (Illinois), Elkhorn (Wisconsin), Grand Rapid (Michigan), Worcester (Massachusetts) and maybe more places? Later when Conn moved out from Elkhart, saxes were made in Nogales (Arizona) and Abilane (Texas) as well. From the late 60&#039;s to 1991 Yamaha produced c five million wind instruments. I can&#039;t say how many saxophones. To be frank, to invest in saxophones is bad. At least in Sweden. I sold two very good Martin altos (The Martin Alto and a Martin HC Comm II) with custom pad job (sterling silver resoators/reflectors, premium pads .... ). The Keilwerth alto, Martin Handcraft Imperial and Indiana by Martin went for more money. I did the pad job myself. So buy cheap saxes and install cheap china pads. Write about the cheap saxes and use words/prahses&nbsp; like &quot;nearly as good as&quot;, &quot;most undevalued saxes&quot; .... and internet will increase the value of your saxes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="thomsax, post: 497272, member: 17"] If I remember right (Japp Kool's book; "Das Saxophon") around 1930 1 million (from 1850) saxes hade been made worldwide. C 800 000 saxophones were built by american manufacors. Beside Elkhart, saxes were made in Cleveland (Ohio), Chicago (Illinois), Elkhorn (Wisconsin), Grand Rapid (Michigan), Worcester (Massachusetts) and maybe more places? Later when Conn moved out from Elkhart, saxes were made in Nogales (Arizona) and Abilane (Texas) as well. From the late 60's to 1991 Yamaha produced c five million wind instruments. I can't say how many saxophones. To be frank, to invest in saxophones is bad. At least in Sweden. I sold two very good Martin altos (The Martin Alto and a Martin HC Comm II) with custom pad job (sterling silver resoators/reflectors, premium pads .... ). The Keilwerth alto, Martin Handcraft Imperial and Indiana by Martin went for more money. I did the pad job myself. So buy cheap saxes and install cheap china pads. Write about the cheap saxes and use words/prahses like "nearly as good as", "most undevalued saxes" .... and internet will increase the value of your saxes. [/QUOTE]

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