{"id":3995,"date":"2008-12-20T09:18:05","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T16:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=3995"},"modified":"2009-08-07T22:52:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T05:52:30","slug":"a-vintage-sax-players-ultimate-prize-collectible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2008\/a-vintage-sax-players-ultimate-prize-collectible\/","title":{"rendered":"A Vintage Sax Player’s Ultimate Prize Collectible?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christmas-time seems like the ideal time to talk about a self-playing saxophone, because I can think of\u00a0quite of few of my\u00a0vintage sax-playing colleagues (as well as myself) whose eyes would light up like those of little kids at Christmas time, if we were able to see this in person… I’m not even going to mention what would happen if one of us were to find one of these under our Christmas trees! \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n

I don’t even know how I happened to come across this a couple of nights ago, but I ended up on the\u00a0web site of\u00a0man from Sweden, by the name of J\u00f6rgen St\u00e4dje. J\u00f6rgen’s non-professional page<\/a> tells some very interesting stories, among them about his\u00a0travels to the National Museum from Musical Clock to Street Organ<\/a>, in Utrecht, Holland.<\/p>\n

Of his visit to the museum, J\u00f6rgen writes:<\/p>\n

Holland is the promised land of self-playing instruments (like Switzerland, but in Sweden we always think of Holland) and in Utrecht you’ll find the “National Museum from Musical Clock to Street Organ,” in which we saw a number of fantastic machines from the previous century.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Source: www.qedata.se \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/h6>\n

[The above] picture shows a self-playing saxophone, a personal instrument. Note the clockwork box that drives the music roll. Also note that the Q.R.S. company that made the music roll, still exists and still makes some hundred thousands of rolls per annum, for various mechanical self-playing instruments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While obviously not nearly as high-tech as the robotic saxophone player<\/a>, built by the Takashima R&C Laboratory, at the Hosei University in Japan, the Q.R.S. player saxophone is still pretty damn cool. It certainly has a very unique place in saxophonic history.<\/p>\n

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…this is just my blog<\/em>. <\/span>My \u201creal\u201d <\/strong>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><\/div>\n
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