H. Couf pages now completely updated!
I am so incredibly relieved to say that after 7 years of research; cataloguing of hundreds of H. Couf saxophones; viewing & reviewing thousands of …
Baritone Saxophone
H. Couf Superba soprano & bari done!
It’s hard to believe that it was just a mere 3 weeks ago that I published my last article here in the Bassic Sax Blog, …
Hammerschmidt octave patent
German patent application Background Summery Figure 1 Figure 2 Patent claims Photos of Hammerschmidt octave vents 1961 Hammerschmidt catalogue page & description Other companies’ inventions: …
Is a vintage sax less reliable?
I was having an interesting conversation on a sax discussion board the other day about my new SX90R Shadow tenor. A bunch of us were …
Vintage Tonality bari by Orsi (?)
I got contacted a couple of weeks ago by my musical colleague from Cannonball Music, Ryan Lillywhite, about a vintage bari he got in the …