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<\/a><\/p>\nSource: adman633<\/span><\/p>\n I received an email the other day from a woman who owns one of these vintage saxophone-shaped “things”. It had been bought for her brother when he was young, (he passed away in the early 1930s). Unfortunately, this family heirloom is in need of a repair and likely a replacement part.<\/p>\n While searching the ‘Net she found my site and hoped that I could offer up some repair shop suggestions. I had to admit that this is not really my area of expertise, but that I would see if someone who happened across my site, might know of someone who does repairs on these Q.R.S Playasax, wind-up saxophones.<\/p>\n The Q.R.S. Playasax was not built as a serious musical instrument, but rather for amusement. It was originally patented in 1930, and sold, pre-patent, for $3.75 in 1929, under the name The Automatic Saxophone<\/a>. According to the United States Department of Labor’s Inflation Calculator<\/a>, that would be $50.91 in 2013.<\/p>\n Source: adman633 <\/span><\/p>\n Source: adman633<\/span><\/p>\n I did some searching on the Internet, but sadly didn’t really come up with much information about Q.R.S. Playasax repairs. The most informative site is the Mechanical Music Digest. Using their Archives tab, I came up with 18 topics for Play-A-Sax,<\/a> and 27 for Playasax<\/a>. Unfortunately from what I could see, these threads dealt with DIY repairs, and none discussed any shops that repaired the little wind-up sax.<\/p>\n I suspect if the woman lived in Europe, her repair options might be greater, but since she is in the US, the best advice I could offer up would be the following:<\/p>\n Source: adman633<\/span><\/p>\n If anyone has any input on this, I’d love to hear it. If you’ve had your Q.R.S. Playasax repaired, please chime in with a comment. Let me know who did the work, and where they are located. If you did the work yourself, please let me know how difficult it was to work on this little wind-up toy saxophone.<\/p>\n At this point it would be really interesting to gather stories about these wind-up saxophones, because I know of a number of sax players who have them in their personal collections. Furthermore, over the years I have received quite a few emails about the Q.R.S. Playasax. My hope is that this could become a central repository for an owners exchange of info.<\/p>\n If you are interested in learning more about this unique little wind-up toy sax, I do have a page dedicated to the Q.R.S. Playasax on my website<\/a>. There you will find some of the patent info, as well as some very pretty examples of these early 20th century saxophone-shaped “things”.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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