During my usual trolling of eBay listings, this unusual vintage tenor caught my eye yesterday: a professional model La Monte, that wasn’t made by Orsi for change. Instead of being Italian, this sax is in fact a combo of Dutch and German in origin.
Source: eBay.com
This horn is located in France, and the seller has written the ad mostly in French. I’ll let you have the fun of entering the ad copy into the web translation service of your choice, since the ones I picked, were all pretty funny, and quite inaccurate. Here’s what the seller wrote in English:
Tenor saxophone. Keilwerth body, assembly in Holland by Schenkelaars, in the sixties. Pads are good and recent. No leaks, recently adjusted, and in playing condition. Dark and smooth sound with my mouthpieces (Selmer soloist, Otto Link rubber and supertone master). [Mouthpieces are not included.] Some minor dents showed on the pictures, and some minor soldering works on the post,and octave mechanism (see pics). Keyworks like the Conn 10M. Rolled tone holes.
The case is old, and the locks are not functionnal, but it will protect the sax during the shipping. Additional pictures on request.
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Since this is a Keilwerth-made body tube, I’d be very curious to know what this horn would sound like next to the Dörfler & Jörka (D&J) horns, that of course all had the Keilwerth body tubes as well, and were of the same vintage.
The auction for this Schenkelaars-made La Monte Superior ends in just a few hours from now. At the time of writing there were 17 bids on the horn, with the high bid being €300.00, which according to eBay, is approximately $450 US.
BTW, Doctor Sax has a very similar, if not identical, horn for sale currently. The brand name on that vintage tenor is Concord Artist. The selling price of that sax is $750.
Update: This tenor sold for €300.00, which was approximately $450 at the time of the sale.