![]() ![]() Looks relatively new with excellent pads. ![]() La Voix II (most recent model) curved soprano sax, in Black lacquer (really a greyish/metal type of finish). Very clean finish, great pads, high F# key, 2 necks (straight and curved). I had a blue one and a black (lacquered) one last year, and they both sold for $850 and $600 respectively. This is a really nice playing soprano sax made in Taiwan. Really kind of a mint soprano, and curved, and fully serviced, at a great price. Range is up to High G, wow! In other words has the alternate high F# and to the left of this has the alt high G. Like a real intermediate soprano, lacquered, almost spotless, with excellent pads. Nice, little curved soprano, from this venerable company with a long track record of producing quality saxophones. Solid student model, Chinese made serviced, plays very well good for the price $325, wow! $1250 as is, $1800 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, has the rolled tone holes, comes in the original case and is in need of an overhaul and polishing! Was repadded at some point, has old brown pads, no resos, and sort of plays a little, but needs a new pad job. Vintage Collector’s item!Ĭonn Straight Soprano, keyed in C, #128012 (1924). ![]() $1200 as is, $1700 with repad and polish. 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). ![]()
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