SeleS by Selmer: Anyone Surprised?
On May 26 Selmer Paris had a press release that likely shouldn’t have come as a surprise to many. Selmer announced its new brand, SeleS, …
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What Exactly Does A Flamethrower Sax Look Like?
It was just about a month ago that I first happened across the following article in the Entertainment News section on the Film Industry Network …
Hohner President With Bevelled Tone Holes
I saw something on the German eBay site the other day that got me very excited—from a saxophone historian’s perspective I mean. A seller in …
WERO Royal Saxophone: Germans Loved The Unibrows
A WERO Royal saxophone on eBay There is currently a tenor on eBay that I would love to bid on, but since I just bought …
Hess Saxophones: Another Saxophone With Eyebrows
Today’s dig into German saxophonlogical history concerns the Ernst Hess Nachf company, and specifically, Hess saxophones post WWII. Hess: a victim of expropriation and forced …