{"id":14943,"date":"2009-12-13T10:45:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T18:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=14943"},"modified":"2009-12-13T10:45:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T18:45:57","slug":"a-very-rare-vintage-w-stowasser%e2%80%99s-sohne-verona-contrabass-saxophone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2009\/a-very-rare-vintage-w-stowasser%e2%80%99s-sohne-verona-contrabass-saxophone\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Rare Vintage W. Stowasser\u2019s S\u00f6hne Verona Contrabass Saxophone"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past summer\u00a0I wrote about an Italian-made W. Stowasser\u2019s S\u00f6hne bass saxophone<\/a>, that one of my readers had an opportunity to buy. Some of the information I was able to obtain about the W. Stowasser\u2019s S\u00f6hne company, came from Scott Robinson<\/a>. For over a decade, Scott has owned a W. Stowasser\u2019s\u00a0S\u00f6hne Verona contrabass saxophone.<\/p>\n

Scott was nice enough to send me some photos of his vintage contra, and give me permission to write about the sax. I’ve been meaning to do just that, but as so often happens, I got sidetracked, and\u00a0my\u00a0article\u00a0went onto the back burner.<\/p>\n

Then this morning I noticed that another contrabass sax player, Randy Emerick<\/a>, had posted a link on the Bass Sax Co-op<\/a>,\u00a0to a CNN story about Scott and his contra. This is a great piece. Enjoy…<\/p>\n

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\nWatching this video jiggled my memory, and I thought today was the perfect day to finally write about Scott Robinson and his vintage contrabass saxophone.<\/p>\n

Scott’s main horn is tenor. He writes:<\/p>\n

I’m primarily a tenor player, jazz music of all types, although I play a lot of bass and other sizes (did a whole CD on C melody called Melody from the Sky). I’ve played the contra on probably 6-8 CDs including my own Thinking Big, and others with John Pizzarelli, Randy Sandke, Hazmat Modine, Bob Belden and others. I played it in a Jackie Chan movie score, in the JVC jazz festival, and with people like Roscoe Mitchell, Maria Schneider, Bobby Short, Don Sebesky and others. It’s definitely seen some use.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Source: S. Robinson<\/h6>\n

According to Scott, this Italian-made contrabass is keyed from low Bb to D3.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Source: S. Robinson<\/h6>\n

This W. Stowasser\u2019s\u00a0S\u00f6hne Verona contrabass saxophone has an\u00a0automatic\u00a0octave key.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Source: S. Robinson<\/h6>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Source: S. Robinson<\/h6>\n

Scott says as much as he loves his vintage contra, it is very difficult to play, and quite out of tune.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Source: S. Robinson<\/h6>\n

In this photo, you can see Scott with his contra, along with a tenora, a Catalonian double reed horn that was presented to\u00a0him recently in Barcelona.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Source: S. Robinson<\/h6>\n

I think it’s wonderful that one of the original remaining 15 or so contrabass saxophones sees regular use. These horns have a historical value all their own.<\/p>\n

Sure these vintage contras\u00a0might not play as in tune as an Eppelsheim contra, nor are they as ergonomically friendly. However,\u00a0in the vintage saxophone world, these guys are at the top of the food chain.<\/p>\n

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…this is just my blog<\/em>. <\/span> My \u201creal\u201d <\/b> website is<\/span> www.bassic-sax.info.<\/a> If you\u2019re looking for <\/span> sax info<\/strong>,<\/span> you should check it out too.<\/span>There\u2019s lots<\/em> there! <\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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