The Hüttl section of my site has gotten so large now, that I have decided to split it into subcategories.

De Luxe Hüttl Alto Saxophone

In fall of 2004 I picked this alto up at an antique show.

It is a very heavy horn. It has rolled tone holes; right-sided bell keys; mother of pearl in-lays on all the keys, including the thumb rest and palm and side keys. (Reminiscent of the King Super Sonics.) It also has a G# trill key; Fork Eb; and a very strange extra key I've never seen before that would be operated by your right index finger. This key opens the Eb palm key allowing you to trill from D3 to D#3.

Until April 2008, I had found out very little concrete information about the horn, except that it played surprisingly well.

From the Internet research I had done on the brand name, I had found no references to saxophones, only to brass instruments like French horns and coronets and to a photo of a vintage jazz guitar.