Saxophones Martin Committee Skyline.

[thomsax]

Both great sources. I use them often.
Too bad the sites haven’t updated with new information in years.

Yes, good sourches. But typical internet works. Quantity before quality. Lots of pictures, cut and paste. Lots of borrow .... .

The paper readers are looking for picutures and the internet readers are looking for text!

 

[PigSquealer]

The paper readers are looking for picutures and the internet readers are looking for text!

And both are looking truth. Well researched documented facts.

 

[turf3]

Your comment and list got me thinking. I wonder if this is a production QC fix. Those that randomly played sharp beyond a factory set threshold. Testing tech rejected and returned to production for alteration. Swapping the octave touch and C# key takes 5 minutes. A few more minutes to seal pad and regulate. Manufacturing hourly wages were about ¢.77 / hr.. So ¢.20 fix, a few pennies difference on cost of parts and nothing waisted. But why wouldn’t they just include the setup to begin with???

Yeah, but tone holes are punched and soldered (for Martins) using fixtures that ought to locate them accurately. I would guess that most players handle the horn in such a way that the wide C# octave doesn't make that upper note TOO sharp; but a few play it in such a way that it is. I had a theory that the C# adjuster was done away with when a minor adjustment to tone hole size and/or location was implemented, but the on again off again nature (or maybe it was just "some get it and some don't" through a whole period of production) certainly throws that theory into doubt. If all the work were done, I might get out the Martin, a tuner, and a collection of mouthpieces and see if some of them make the C# octave wider than others. But I've still got a couple thousand pounds of crap in boxes to unpack from the move, plus I need a new ranch gate built, a barn built, a driveway graded and graveled, and a bunch more stuff to do before I can even think about these kinds of investigations.

It makes me wonder, was there some kind of orderable option that included the C# adjuster? After all, plating was an orderable option. We see with some other makes and models that certain options could be ordered - there are a tiny number of Mark 6 Selmers with the fork Eb (!)

 

[mpjbiker]

Just an update (if anyone's interested😜). The Martin went back to be tweaked, and while it was improved, it still wasn't right. While there, we tried a Conn transitional-his face lit up! More expensive, but a fab horn, with great sound, tuning and intonation. We've taken it home-so far he loves it, a great horn!