{"id":15035,"date":"2010-01-08T10:34:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T18:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=15035"},"modified":"2010-11-22T10:36:01","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T18:36:01","slug":"extenders-of-the-buescher-low-g-bass-saxophone-finally-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2010\/extenders-of-the-buescher-low-g-bass-saxophone-finally-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"Extenders Of The Buescher Low G Bass Saxophone Finally Identified"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well the mystery is finally solved. I can now say I know definitively who did the Low G extension of the Buescher bass saxophone that I tried in Seattle in fall of ’08.\u00a0It was Lopes Instruments\u00a0of Brazil<\/a>. (A word of warning, their site loads extremely<\/span><\/em><\/strong> slowly. I wonder if their server is on dial-up?)<\/p>\n

Thanks goes out to\u00a0one of my regular readers, and Woodwind Forum<\/a> members, Tom Nelson, who\u00a0sent me the link to the Lopes website.\u00a0After looking at their site, I remembered that I’d seen it years ago.<\/p>\n

I also remembered seeing a picture of an identical\u00a0Low G extended bass on the Bass Sax Co-op<\/a>. The pic appeared in a photo album that featured bass saxes belonging to Co-op members.<\/p>\n

Before the holidays I emailed that member and asked him if he knew who did the extension on his horn. He was kind enough to write me back and let me know\u00a0that it was indeed Lopes Instruments that extended his bass to Low G.<\/p>\n

According to their website, the Lopes workshop\u00a0is\u00a0250 sq metres in size. This large shop allows them to provide a\u00a0number of services\u00a0including: the repair of musical instruments; the custom extension of\u00a0tenor, baritone, and bass saxophones;\u00a0the\u00a0refinishing of instruments\u00a0in lacquer, nickel, silver, and gold plate; as well as the custom adaptations of instruments for musicians with physical disabilities.<\/p>\n

Although I didn’t see it mentioned anywhere on their site, their photo page<\/a> would indicate that they also make unusually large saxophones of some kind. Unfortunately I don’t know what those would be.<\/p>\n

\"fabricacao3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Source: lopesinstrumentos.hpgvip.ig.com.br<\/h6>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Source: lopesinstrumentos.hpgvip.ig.com.br<\/h6>\n

This, I believe, might be a bass saxophone.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Source: lopesinstrumentos.hpgvip.ig.com.br<\/h6>\n

Their website is a wee bit outdated, since they say they are the only company that provides Low A and G extensions for saxophones<\/a>. Well that might have been true in 2000, roughly when I saw their site first, and when that page was written, but we know that another Brazilian company,\u00a0J\u2019\u00c9lle Stainer<\/a>, also does custom extension work on saxophones.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you send your bass sax to Lopes, it will apparently take\u00a06 to 8 months for the custom extension to be completed. When it comes back,\u00a0the\u00a0sax\u00a0will look like this. (Presumably you would have your choice of finishes.)<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Source: lopesinstrumentos.hpgvip.ig.com.br<\/h6>\n

\u00a0\"saxbaixo5\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Source: lopesinstrumentos.hpgvip.ig.com.br<\/h6>\n

Just to refresh you memory, this is what the bass I played in Seattle looked like:<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Source: Jim Glass<\/h6>\n

If you’d like to see close up photos of the key work, make sure you check out the first post<\/a> in this series.<\/p>\n

It’s nice to finally know who did the extension on this bass saxophone I was tempted to buy. As it turns out, that particular horn it ended up going to England. Last I heard, a high end department store was using it\u00a0in a window display until February.<\/p>\n

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