Current Administrivia!

November 13, 2011 @ 6:02 PM ….  Check out a new thing I’m playing with: The Saxophone Model Timeline.  Enjoy!

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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