{"id":43402,"date":"2015-03-04T09:50:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T17:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=43402"},"modified":"2024-06-18T10:27:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T17:27:11","slug":"transitional-hohner-president-alto-sax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2015\/transitional-hohner-president-alto-sax\/","title":{"rendered":"Transitional Hohner President Alto Sax"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update June 2024:<\/strong> Although all the info contained in this article is now on the Hohner President page of the Bassic Sax website<\/a>, I have purposely left this here since it was the article that first ID’d the Transitional phase of horns and included a chart. The comments below were also worth saving. For a full overview of the brand however, do check out the Hohner page on Bassic Sax.<\/p>\n

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I’m literally weeks behind in checking my emails, so when I finally opened my email program yesterday, I was excited to find a link to this eBay auction.<\/a> It turned out to be a transitional Hohner President alto sax. It is serial # 10737, which would make it circa 1961.<\/p>\n

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\nSource: maximilian1287 on eBay.de<\/span><\/p>\n

If you’ve subscribed to my weblog for a while you know that I’ve been writing about, and researching the Hohner President saxophones for years. These saxophones built by Max Keilwerth are just as good as (better?) the more famous ones built by Max’s brother Julius, but have generally not: 1. Received the recognition they deserved, and 2. Been researched and examined to see how they evolved over their 20 year production run.<\/p>\n

In order to increase the sax-playing community’s knowledge about these fine, Max Keilwerth-made horns, I created:<\/p>\n