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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 …
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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 …
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