When I saw this interesting piece of art work on Flickr, I was immediately intrigued. It took my brain a few moments to process what I was seeing, but when it did, I was hooked. This is one very unique piece of saxophone art.
The photo was taken by Les Stockton, in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
Model Train Made Of Sax Bits
Photography by Les_Stockton Source: Flickr
Besides the saxophone and flute parts, I can identify a piece from a sprinkler system, but the rest doesn’t seem familiar to me. Do any of the parts look familiar to you?
The composite train looks like a work by Sonny Dalton of Kalamazoo, MI. I have one of his pieces. He always used musical instruments and combined it with misc metal, brass, stainless steel, and bronze items. He died on Dec 10th, 2011.
Hello David. Welcome to my site.
Thanks for that info. I wonder if there are more examples of his work around on the ‘Net? Now that I have a name, it will give me a place to start checking around a bit.
Thanks again for dropping in, and providing a potential artist’s name for this interesting art piece.
What is your piece like?
I forgot to add that the cowcatcher appears to be made from taper roller bearing cages.
Hi there Bob. Welcome to my site.
Wow, you are just a wealth of information. Thank you for ID’ing so many of those mysterious pieces for me. Apparently you know your way around much more than the keys!
Take care. See you soon…helen
The wheels are open caged ball bearings, the con rod assembly is 2 stamped combination wrenches,and the cylinder on the left is a compression fitting similar to that on a hydraulic brake line.