jonf
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A month or so ago, I bought a well used Yamaha YAS21 at a low price, to sort out and sell on. Needed a couple of small pads at the top and a bit of a tweak, that's all. Did the work and play tested it. Hmm, now we have a problem, and it's a thornier one than normal. It plays brilliantly, despite its battered looks, and a very slightly clattery action where a couple of corks have gone hard. A really beefy, rich tone. I've had half a dozen YAS21/23/25s over the years, and they've all been good, but this one is head and shoulders above all the others. So now I don't want to sell it. I'm lucky enough to already have two other brilliant altos, a silver Buescher True Tone from the 1920s, and a battered but superb Yanagisawa A6. So I really can't justify keeping it, but I've played it nearly every day for the last month.
What am I going to do?
What am I going to do?
