{"id":24114,"date":"2011-03-03T10:38:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T18:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=24114"},"modified":"2011-05-08T08:40:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T15:40:37","slug":"how-much-did-the-hohner-president-alto-cost-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2011\/how-much-did-the-hohner-president-alto-cost-new\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Did The Hohner President Alto Cost New?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well according to this announcement from Hohner, in 1968\u00a0a Hohner President alto cost $380. At the time this sax was a 2 tone model, keyed to high F#.<\/p>\n

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According to The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis<\/a>, $380 in 1968, translates into $2,410.74 in 2011.<\/p>\n

It would be very interesting to compare this price to the price of the\u00a0other<\/em> Keilwerth saxophone of the day. Does anyone know what the J. Keilwerths were selling for? 1968 was of course the very tail end of the President production, and was also the year of Max Keilwerth’s death.<\/p>\n

This particular version of the President would have the newer features such as those on this horn<\/a>, that was recently sold by Mark Wiseman, from The Little Sax Shop<\/a>. To find out more about the features of the various versions of the Hohner President, check out the Hohner page on the main portion of my site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thanks very much to one of my regular blog readers, Daniel\u00a0from Venezuela, who found this announcement in the December 1968 edition of Boys’ Life<\/em>, and sent me the link.<\/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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