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<blockquote data-quote="turf3" data-source="post: 559341" data-attributes="member: 8105">Actually, Yamaha produced them.&nbsp; In a variety of factories in a variety of locations, with varying degrees of vertical integration.&nbsp; Again, this is what people who manage FACTORIES, making things to SELL AT A PROFIT, do.&nbsp; As the old medical school adage has it,&nbsp; &quot;If you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras&quot;.&nbsp; If you see a Vito alto sax with a keyguard that looks just like that of a YAS-21 or 23 but with slight shape changes in a couple places - and looks nothing like anything from Beaugnier or KHS - the most reasonable assumption is that for some reason Yamaha used some keyguards with a slight variation in detail design.&nbsp; Probably they had it stamped by a different company that interpreted the drawing a bit differently when making the tool, and since it was perfectly functional they accepted the slight shape difference in the perforated holes.I am pretty certain that LeBlanc themselves DID make in their own factory a small number of saxophones (Rational and Semi-Rational System), but that was considerably earlier and those were positioned as professional line instruments, not labeled as Vito.&nbsp; And for all I know those may have been contracted from Beaugnier or similar, as CKD kits to LB.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="turf3, post: 559341, member: 8105"] Actually, Yamaha produced them. In a variety of factories in a variety of locations, with varying degrees of vertical integration. Again, this is what people who manage FACTORIES, making things to SELL AT A PROFIT, do. As the old medical school adage has it, "If you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras". If you see a Vito alto sax with a keyguard that looks just like that of a YAS-21 or 23 but with slight shape changes in a couple places - and looks nothing like anything from Beaugnier or KHS - the most reasonable assumption is that for some reason Yamaha used some keyguards with a slight variation in detail design. Probably they had it stamped by a different company that interpreted the drawing a bit differently when making the tool, and since it was perfectly functional they accepted the slight shape difference in the perforated holes. I am pretty certain that LeBlanc themselves DID make in their own factory a small number of saxophones (Rational and Semi-Rational System), but that was considerably earlier and those were positioned as professional line instruments, not labeled as Vito. And for all I know those may have been contracted from Beaugnier or similar, as CKD kits to LB. [/QUOTE]

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