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I have a Lyon and Healey Clown face alto that I I am trying to overhaul and was wondering if anyone has any information on these saxes.When you look at it you think it must be a Martin stencil because of the large soldered on tone holes but when you go onto SOTW they tend to say this is in fact not the case but that they are actually made by a French company called Coutuore in La Plage then they talk about the factory being bought by Lyon and Healey who were and apparently still are harp manufacturers in Chicago.
My sax is either silver or nickel plated (well worn) not sure which, but it is a sand blasted finish on the body except for the polished clown face on the bell and polished keys and mechanics like I have said it seems to have Martin tone holes but there are differences,the bell brace has a round connector to bell rather than the diamond shape on the Martin, the Palm keys are interlinked and the neck octave mechanism is a double hinged two part affair where the hoop and bar connect to a little independently hinged octave key by a pin in the end of it, there may be other differences that I don't know about
Does anyone know anything definitive about these horns
My sax is either silver or nickel plated (well worn) not sure which, but it is a sand blasted finish on the body except for the polished clown face on the bell and polished keys and mechanics like I have said it seems to have Martin tone holes but there are differences,the bell brace has a round connector to bell rather than the diamond shape on the Martin, the Palm keys are interlinked and the neck octave mechanism is a double hinged two part affair where the hoop and bar connect to a little independently hinged octave key by a pin in the end of it, there may be other differences that I don't know about
Does anyone know anything definitive about these horns