Saxophones Saxophones, rarely discussed

[mark_addy]

In France too, but if you are cool, and if you're discret and At worst, you can negotiate or explain things politely, you will not have problem,

That is function in France

I know what you mean. And being older helps - if someone threatened my mid-50s, greying, bespectacled self with the police as my feet poked out of their skip, I reckon I'd find that pretty funny!

 

[Wade Cornell]

I would have bought it right then had thye demo model been available, as I didn't want to wait a year.

You wouldn't have to wait a year now...

 

[Stephen Howard]

It is good that you both can resurrect "dumpster dive" (a common US term meaning to retrieve items being binned / trashed) saxophones and return them to their former glory. (Here in town they recently passed a law making it illegal to retrieve items from dumpster bins. I can see a future local paper article: "Salvation Army Saxist Caught Dumpster Diving Behind Tarpley Music Store"!)

Saxes used as lamp bodies, flower vases and plaque mounted wall ornaments remind me of game animal trophy heads mounted to walls. 🤮 😉

Over here it's called Skip Diving.
When I was setting up my shop in Notting Hill we hired a skip to take away all the junk in the basement - much of which was a motley collection of old string instruments that had succumbed to years of damp.
Managed to fill the entire skip with such junk in a day - but when we returned the next morning most of it was gone. Better yet, it hadn't been replaced with old sofas and cookers.

This pattern carried on for three or four days - and we were mightily pleased because it meant we only had to pay to have the one skip emptied.
The joy was short-lived, however, because over the next few months folks brought in all that old crap for repair. It got properly tiresome telling people that we threw it out because it either couldn't be fixed, was beyond economic repair or was just plain junk. But perhaps the worst of it was the stories that some folks built around their mouldy violins and rotten banjos. "Had it in the family for years", "Belonged to my grandad"..."Previously owned by Lonnie Donegan".

Skip etiquette over here is that it's best to ask whoever's responsible for it if you can take some stuff out of it - which avoids an ugly scene if they think you're putting your own crap into it or looking for documents with personal details on them.
This often has a side benefit because folks will sometimes say "Oh, you're interested in old computers/scrap metal/offcuts of wood/shelving? Come on in - we've got loads! Help yourself!"
In principle though, few people mind if you want to take stuff out of a skip because it means they can get more in it.

But...some people are strange. "That's MY rubbish...and you're not having any of it!!"

 

[turf3]

What happens in my city is that you put stuff out on the curb a week before the truck comes, and then the scavengers pick up almost all of it.

 

[Stocker]

In outer-ring suburbs and exurbs here, if you leave something at the end of your driveway with a "FREE" sign on it on Saturday morning it'll usually be gone before lunch.

 

[Pete Thomas]

In outer-ring suburbs and exurbs here, if you leave something at the end of your driveway with a "FREE" sign on it on Saturday morning it'll usually be gone before lunch

Round here if you do that nobody takes it. But if you put a sign saying for sale £2 please enquire within then it’ll be gone before you can bat an eyelid.

 

[mark_addy]

In principle though, few people mind if you want to take stuff out of a skip because it means they can get more in it.

My sister threw out a toilet one afternoon into a skip outside the house she and her husband had recently bought. By evening it was gone. By next morning, the one which presumably her old one had replaced (in someone else's house) was back in her skip. I thought that was fair enough, really 🙂

 

[PigSquealer]

My sister threw out a toilet one afternoon into a skip outside the house she and her husband had recently bought. By evening it was gone. By next morning, the one which presumably her old one had replaced (in someone else's house) was back in her skip. I thought that was fair enough, really 🙂

Makes you wonder what the upgrade was ? Color, height or contour 😳

 

[PigSquealer]

In outer-ring suburbs and exurbs here, if you leave something at the end of your driveway with a "FREE" sign on it on Saturday morning it'll usually be gone before lunch.

Same here. It’s actually against the law here to “dumpster dive”. Curbside with “free” sign days before bin pickup is permission given. A quite common thing. On trash / bin day eve, any curbside or in bin contents are property of waste management company unless you ask the homeowner for permission.

 

[PigSquealer]

Yesterday I 'discovered' the F.E. Olds Super:

https://reverb.com/item/95146976-f-e-olds-super-alto-saxophone-very-rare
Obviously beauty is in the eye of the beholder but I have to say that is a very cool looking alto! With an interesting story as well, that you can find if you dig a bit here or at the other forum.

The owner removed the listing after seeing this thread. Looks like I’ll be doing a TLC service restoration / pad job on it.

 

[PigSquealer]

Years ago I found an Olds Super for $600 on eBay. I don't recall if it was an alto or tenor, but it was silver-plated and I've been kicking myself ever since for not buying it.

Good luck finding another one in any condition. Ten years I’ve only seen one listed.

 

[Ghr9204]

In outer-ring suburbs and exurbs here, if you leave something at the end of your driveway with a "FREE" sign on it on Saturday morning it'll usually be gone before lunch.

Round here if you do that nobody takes it. But if you put a sign saying for sale £2 please enquire within then it’ll be gone before you can bat an eyelid.

Years ago when I worked for the health service, we were planning a renovation of a hosptal's dental department. We were gutting out the entire floor area including fixtures, cabinetry, electrical, plumbing and partition walls, returning with a completely different floor and equipment plan according to latest standards provided by an architect we hired.

A question came up on keeping costs within budget, could we figure a way to avoid tipping (disposal) fees? According to tribal rules, all waste must be hauled off the Indian reservation. In remote locations this may mean hundreds of miles to a sanitary landfill.

My supervisor suggested neatly stacking the cabinetry and other key items outside and putting a sign, "Valuable government equipment! Do not Steal!" and shortly after it should be gone.

If it was an Army Reserve facilities renovation, add the qualifier, "By Order of the Commander!" It will be gone the next day.

 

[jcn664]

Good luck finding another one in any condition. Ten years I’ve only seen one listed.

I see not many but sometime, you see one for sale around 1500€,

I would like this modele too, but i have more rarity which coming soon,

Seriously olds super is cool, but you can have leblanc semi rationnel or rationnel, more expensive but rare Horn for sur,

 

[mark_addy]

Makes you wonder what the upgrade was ? Color, height or contour 😳

Cleanliness? 🙂

 

[jcn664]

The owner removed the listing after seeing this thread. Looks like I’ll be doing a TLC service restoration / pad job on it.

Seriously,

It will sell for many money after restoration or it will keep this horn

 

[Woodpad]

In the Netherlands dumpsters are seen as recycle bins. So if you see a Hamnmerschmidt, gebr Moenig, Kassel or Van Hall, you just dive.

 

[Woodpad]

Cleanliness? 🙂

In Germany there is a habit that when you become a director your toilet is changed to a black one.

 

[thomsax]

If you want to talk about rare, rarley dicussed, saxes it's just to start to do so?

I want to talk about Rock & Roll Saxophone and have come to the conclusion that there are other ways to talk about Rock & Roll Saxophone. Rocksax is just a small part of sax world.

 

[PigSquealer]

Cleanliness? 🙂

😳

 

[jcn664]

If you want to talk about rare, rarley dicussed, saxes it's just to start to do so?

I want to talk about Rock & Roll Saxophone and have come to the conclusion that there are other ways to to about Rock & Roll Saxophone. Rocksax is just a small part of sax world.

Saxophone rare, just all old french manufacture which not Selmer and buffet crampons are rare to see player with,

I don't see plenty saxophonist playing sml or Pierret,

Pierret curved soprano,
Couesnon curved soprano

For exemple, only me talke sometime of couesnon monopole Low A high G, i think sometime people not really interested by this modele and prefere to focus on mark vi low A or just mark vi in globally,