First, this is not the Olds Super Star. You’ll find out, shortly, that Olds tends to recycle parts of model names. Production Information s/n 1 to 2000? (1941 – 1943?) Available Pitches Eb Alto, Bb Tenor Available Finishes Lacquer, Silver Plate, Gold Plate (per Olds’ 1941 brasswind catalog) This is a very unique looking...
Read more →If there are ALTO comparison pics, we have to have TENOR pics, too. As with the alto page, I’m not quuuiiite finished, yet. I also won’t be doing this for the other pitches or the Low A Alto because those horns are considerably less common, so I don’t have enough pics to show.
Read more →I wanted to get this out as soon as I could. I’m not quuuiiite finished, yet.
Read more →First, a little note: there is so much to write about on the VI, that I’m breaking stuff down and trying to get a section of stuff ready at a time. In other words, I’m going to update this article a few times and add pictures and other goodies.
Read more →In 2003, after I posted my first version of my Keilwerth pages on www.saxpics.com, I was contacted by Peter Ponzol. He said he wanted to “clear up” a few things about the Modell Peter Ponzol and his tenure at Keilwerth. Below, I’ve consolidated my questions into three parts: * Questions about Peter Ponzol himself,...
Read more →Now, here’s an interesting turn down the odd design corner: the E.O. Sylvester sax. I first came across the Sylvester way back in 2002. At that time, however, I just filed it in my “interesting, but not my cup of tea” bin and went on to looking at pictures of Selmers. The reason I...
Read more →I offhandedly mentioned awhile ago that I’m going to try to find the biggest and best pictures of a particular make/model/pitch. Additionally, I wanted to get higher resolution pics, if possible. Hey, when I was building saxpics.com, I had a 15″ CRT monitor and images were considered “big” if they were 800×600. I now...
Read more →