The 2012 Calendar is Now on Sale!

The calendar is available at http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/thesaxinfo. For other calendar info, check out my commentary at http://thesax.info/?p=1142.

Current Administrivia!

May 28, 2011 @ 7:33 PM I told you that my next post would be content.  It's my "experimental" Conn New Wonder page.  I still want to tweak some things, but it's very close to what I have in mind.  (If you're wondering, it took about a week of planning and three weeks of research …

Blog Move!

I will be moving this blog to my regular website and keep this one as an emergency spare.  Updates, here, might be a little irregular .... Please update your links to http://thesax.info

Martin Info

Now for something a little different. A few weeks ago, I got a few e-mails from Chris Holtz, a grandson of Fred Holtz, head of Martin Band thru the 30's and 40's.  Unfortunately, when I got his e-mails, I was sick and heavily medicated.  I then proceeded to forget about his e-mails until he sent me …

The Gallery

The Gallery has gotten REALLY huge over the past two weeks. I've been uploading a lot of stuff. Check it out! This gallery is a tad different from what I had at saxpics.com because I ... * Want to get A picture of AN alto for every year of a particular horn's production, to chart …

Administrivia: The Gallery

... has gotten REALLY huge over the past two weeks. I've been uploading a lot of stuff. Check it out! This gallery is a tad different from what I had at saxpics.com because I ... * Want to get A picture of AN alto for every year of a particular horn's production, to chart the …

Antoine-Joseph and Adolphe-Edouard Sax Saxophones

This is just a quick post regarding a much larger project. There are a couple of websites out there that have attempted to track Antoine-Joseph and Adolphe-Edouard Sax instruments.  The problems with them are a) they're missing quite a few saxophones and b) they generally don't have pictures.  I, therefore, proposed to start a project …

A Trip to the MIM

On Monday, April 16th, I took a trip with my folks (visiting from New York) to the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, AZ.  You can check out my original post on The Woodwind Forum. I'm not a camera guy and several of the pics I took just didn't come out at all.  Fortunately, for this …

Early Conns: Horns Before 1916 …

I had an e-mail conversation with Mark Overton (of saxophone.org and saxquest.com) regarding the earliest Conns.  He pointed out some things that are interesting and confusing and some inaccuracies I made on my original Conn pages on saxpics.com.  I decided it'd be something that I should give more attention to, so I'm writing here. Let's …

Conn Altos Throughout the Years

O.  Hai, folks. I'm testing out something that sort-of interests me a bit.  I've always enjoyed my "throughout the years" series for a couple of reasons: first, I don't have to do too much research other than to *find* the pics and, second, I get to see a lot more pretty horns.  Another reason, which …

The Buffet-Powell Saxophones

This is a re-write with the standard "50% more"! Actually, Helen at the Bassic Sax Blog asked me to write a bit of an update for the page I wrote for saxpics.com several years ago, as the current page is missing some of the information and links that I had.  Also, Powell is coming out …

The Saga of the Curved Baritone

Many years ago I came across an interesting picture.  It was described as a “curved F baritone.”  I’ve only seen one other curved saxophone, outside Bb/C/Eb sopranos, in one place:  A. Sax’s patent drawing.  I had also heard the rumor that all of A. Sax’s prototypes were C basses in this shape, so I wasn't …

Selmer Mark VI: The Legends of the Legendary Legend.

Legend: 5-digit serial number horns are the absolute greatest Mark VIs for a variety of reasons. Me: This legend comprises a bunch of stuff. Let me try to take it from the top. I first want to mention that this is primarily about altos and tenors, though: all other pitches of the Mark VI might …