An early Klingson sax with eyebrows
After not writing about Hammerschmidt saxophones for years, I now find myself doing two back-to-back posts about the relatively uncommon brand of German saxophone from …
A series of posts related to the (West) German company that was then located in Burgau. Hammerschmidt only manufactured saxophones between about 1950 and 1982.
After not writing about Hammerschmidt saxophones for years, I now find myself doing two back-to-back posts about the relatively uncommon brand of German saxophone from …
German patent application Background Summery Figure 1 Figure 2 Patent claims Photos of Hammerschmidt octave vents 1961 Hammerschmidt catalogue page & description Other companies’ inventions: …
Hammerschmidt saxes with eyebrow key guards are perhaps not as uncommon as we thought My website is a virtual treasure trove of images when it …
Sometimes I get emails from people looking for particular saxophones. More often than not those buyers are looking for some of the more uncommon instruments …
There is an interesting Hammerschmidt Klingsor alto for sale on eBay at the moment. What makes it interesting, you ask? True, it doesn’t have the …