A Psychedelic Hammerschmidt Pinkie Cluster
A conversation that I’m currently involved with on SOTW involving the restoration of an alto Klingsor, got me thinking about my Hammerschmidts. I started to …
Hammerschmidt Saxophones
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.
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Finicky Hammerschmidt Key Heights Part II: Turns Out It’s Not The Keys, It’s The Neck
Well I learned something very interesting, and very sobering, yesterday about some of the Hammerschmidt saxophones. This information explains why I could not get my …
Finicky Hammerschmidt Key Heights: Part I
Yesterday I took a couple of my vintage, German tenors to my tech, David Gsponer, who owns Matterhorn Music. Dave is about the kindest, gentlest, and most …
Hammerschmidt Klingsor Tenor For Sale In Belgium
I’m always on the lookout for Hammerschmidt saxophones. This rather obscure, vintage German saxophone brand has held a certain fascination for me, ever since I learned …
A Hammerschmidt’s Pinkie Cluster In Detail
I have a fascination with the fine detail work that went into vintage saxophones. Keyguards, octave levers, unusual key mechanisms, and so forth, all attract …
