Saxophones R&C Straight alto

How about a straight baritone (and tenor)? :w00t:

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we had an R&C straight alto in the shopa couple of years ago... very nice piece of kit, I seem to remember

Well, that would be very strange since they only ever made their first altello in 2010 and presented it for the first time to the Frankfurter messe . I think you might have had another brand but not a R&C.
There are many straight altos and few less straight tenors around.

Among the altos there was the Keilwerth as Rhys has, no longer in production, and the Wisemann (which is a Chinese horn closely resembling the Keilwerth)
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baffling, must have been a prototype!

I know personally Claudio Zolla and he told me that the instrument was presented to the public in 2010 and I was there at the presentation!
 
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How much would you like to bet on that?

I know that Claudio sells prototypes to some good clients who go to see him and sax.co.uk is one of his best clients and has priority on " normal" people (as you had to experience yourself). So for example the first solid silver alto and soprano were sold to a distributor before they were shown for the first time in Frankfurt but I didn't think this would have happened with a project that ad stayed a " secret" for a while (as for the curved and semicurved sopranino or the future bass and contrabass) which was the case with the altello.
 
There's also a Trevor James straight alto, I think you've still got one in the shop, Jules? Tell Phill that if he gets fed up tripping over it I'll give him a couple of hundred quid for it.....
 

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