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Conn Saxophones: A History of Excellence and Innovation
‘CONN SAXOPHONES: A HISTORY OF EXCELLENCE AND INNOVATION For over one hundred years, the name Conn has meant the very finest in American-made saxophones. The legendary models of the earlier...
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KING SAXOPHONES: GREAT AMERICANS I love King saxes. They are not without their quirks and faults, but there is just that indefinable something about the sound of a King at full song that gets my...
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BUESCHER 400: THE BEST SAXOPHONE EVER?
BUESCHER 400: THE BEST SAXOPHONE EVER? Louisiana law only permits a man to have one wife (an arrangement that I’m happy with), but if the same restrictions applied to saxophones, I would have to think...
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The Fabulous Leblanc Saxophones
One hundred years after the invention of the saxophone, Messrs. Leon LeBlanc; Georges Leblanc; and Charles Houvenaghel developed a unique instrument which offered viable solutions to problems which had...
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The Grafton Plastic Saxophone
Saxophone history has been remarkably free of developmental detours, a testament to the genius of Adolphe Sax and his original design.One of the more interesting mis-steps was the Grafton saxophone,...
View ArticleAdolphe Sax: the Man Who Started It All
Adolphe Sax (1814-1894) Inventor of the Saxophone Historical Excerpts from ADOLPHE SAX AND HIS SAXOPHONE by Léon Kochnitzky Belgian Government Information Center ( New York, NY 1964) It all began in...
View ArticleSaxophone Stencil Makers
Things aren’t always what they seem! Many times an instrument stamped with one name was actually made by another manufacturer. The identity of the true maker is often impossible to trace, but here are...
View ArticleSaxophone Serial Numbers
BUESCHER Serial# Year 5000 1905 11250 1910 25103 1915 61255 1920 175275 1925 255250 1930 269000 1935 291000 1940 303000 1945 332000 1950 350000 1955 360000 1960 381000 1963 Bought out by Selmer...
View ArticleConn Saxophone Model Timeline
CONN SAXOPHONE MODEL TIMELINE by Steve Goodson ALL DATES AND SERIAL NUMBERS ARE APPROXIMATE Year Serial Number Comments 1889 1 (?) Conn builds the first saxophone in the USA 1891 200 (?) “Wonder” name...
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Buescher Timeline
Model Evolution Timeline by Steve Goodson DATES AND SERIAL NUMBERS ARE APPROXIMATE Year Serial Number Comments 1905 5,000 All records prior to 1905 lost to factory fire in 1903…..first automatic...
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