![]() ![]() ![]() Vintage Collector’s item!Ĭonn Straight Soprano, keyed in C, #128012 (1924). $1200 as is, $1700 with repad and polish. Does have the famous Alternate Eb mechanism of this era in the right hand. The one we have here is in the original silver plate, comes in the original case and is in need of an overhaul and polishing! It has the original White, Kid-Goat (?) skin pads, and sort of plays a little, but needs all new pads. This way one could learn how to play the saxophone (easily done), and not need to transpose! ![]() Silver Plate! Range to high Eb.īuilt in the mid 1920’s, this was the at the height of the saxophone craze, where folks still liked to gather in their parlors to make music themselves after supper, and sheet music, celebrating the new popular songs of the day, came only in the key of C so the major musical instrument manufacturing companies, most centered in Elkhart, Indiana, especially Conn and Buescher, (which by the way came a little earlier into the game than did Selmer, Martin, or King), developed a line of Saxophones pitched in the key of C (this idea had been around for a while), including the C Melody but also an octave higher soprano pitched in C. The Buescher “True Tone” Straight Soprano, keyed in C, #140525 (1923). ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |