My new Buescher saxophone
Hello,
I have another project horn comming. You see, I stopped into a local store where a friend of mine works as a technician and they had just recieved a Jupiter Bari and placed it in the window a few days before. Now, seeing that there was a baritone to be tried, I couldn't help myself but ask for an opportunity to play with it for awhile. I have found it rather trying to get my hands on a baritone to play around with due to the low-demand/high cost and risk of damage that comes with casual handling of such large instruments. Nevertheless, I was able to stop in a few days later with My Ron Caravan MPC which I had precured from Ebay some months before just for a purpose like this. I played for a good half hour to 45 minutes before being too exausted to proceed. I had just had my first ever opportunity to play a baritone and it fueled my extreme desire to have one.
I have wanted a nice baritone with excellent keywork and a range down to A and up to F or F# for the last couple years. Such horns will either be new or of an expensive recent vintage. The cost of such is way too prohibitive right now. I also have figured on owning a second baritone for more casual scenarios when it makes little sense to drag an elite horn along. I had been doing searching and obsessing and staring at pictures of baritones more in line with my dream Low-A baritone while ignoring a large number of low Bb vintage baritones that have been priced $1000 or less. Then I crossed a recent entry at www.junkdude.com, a reputable internet dealer who gathers high praise at sotw. The baritone was a project horn, yet in playable condition. After a few days of thinking about it and gaining approval from my wife, I have ordered a LowPitched 1915 Buescher True-Tone baritone keyed from low Bb to high Eb for a very low price. It's missing the alt-C lever and looks like hell at first glance, but it plays and I think would be a great horn with or without a restoration effort. First think it looks like it needs is a new strap hook, and I don't think reversing it is the answer. I'll keep you posted on how it turns out when it arrives. Now, the issue of low Bb to A has been discussed to death in certain places, but any insites on whether I'll need a high E or F?
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