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A catalogue showing various Adolphe Sax instruments, including saxhorns, saxophones, and saxotrombas. The saxhorns form a family of seven brass instruments (although at one point ten different sizes seem to have existed). Designed for band use, they are pitched alternately in E ♭ and B ♭, like the saxophone group.
Concertiste – Besson's most expensive model from the 1890s to the advent of World War I. The bowed-out shape of the Concertiste's intervalve portings is the design favoured today. [2] Desideratum – Besson's second most expensive model. The main difference in configuration between the Desideratum and the Concertiste models is the ...
The basic saxophone design was patented in late 1945. Creation of the first non-working prototype took place in 1946, and commercial production commenced in 1950. The selling price of the Grafton was £55 i.e. approximately half the cost of a conventional brass saxophone at that time. [ 1 ]
Lou Donaldson playing a Selmer Mk VI alto Selmer Mark VI tenor saxophone Concert model with high F#, right hand G#, D to E flat trill and C to D trill using the palm key E flat. The Selmer Mark VI is a saxophone produced from 1954 to 1981. Production shifted to the Mark VII for the tenor and alto in the mid-1970s (see discussion of serial ...
The visually and aurally striking horn was one of the most desired ever. However, new competition from Selmer (Paris) , aided by the exchange rate between the French Franc and the US Dollar in the postwar era, put price pressure on the American manufacturers and H. N. White was no exception.
(Illustration: Yahoo News; Photos: YouTube) The man’s name is Tim, or Timmy, Cappello, and at age 68 he’s still baring his biceps, blowing that sax, and rocking the heavy-metal neck-chains.
Ethel Merker (1923-2012), prominent horn player in Chicago, collaborated in the design and development of the Merker-Matic [16] line of horns. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Maynard Ferguson (1928–2006), trumpet and flugelhorn virtuoso and namesake of the Holton Maynard Ferguson Trumpet line, performed as a Holton artist and designer starting in the 1960s.
Worth $4 million, Viatina-19 FIV Mara Movéis is the most expensive cow ever sold at auction, according to Guinness World Records. That’s three times more than the last recordholder’s price.