{"id":50020,"date":"2021-01-16T10:43:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T12:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=50020"},"modified":"2024-06-26T16:47:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T23:47:46","slug":"have-you-got-a-steampunk-sax-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2021\/have-you-got-a-steampunk-sax-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you got a steampunk sax yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a couple of weeks of working on the site updates necessitated by: 1. Time, and 2. The new theme I purchased for this site, I thought I would give myself a break from the drudgery today and look for an interesting topic to write an article about. It took less than an hour for me to find the perfect eye candy: a steampunk sax. <\/p>\n

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eBay is indeed a treasure-trove of saxophone-themed and related stuff. Anytime I go there I have no idea what I’m going to find. Today I stumbled across this little gem<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The seller appears to be the artist who created the piece. He\/she describes it like this:<\/p>\n

Ooak… steampunked saxophone. This is a real brass saxophone that I striped from its original make. I used gears from old clock , old radio tubes, copper tubes, and brass parts to create this . The size is 26″ tall by 12″ wide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Awesome idea. A friend of mine who regularly goes to steampunk fairs and events, had the same idea years ago. I gave Donna an old alto sax that she could use for just this purpose. I should ask her what she ever did with it. But I digress….<\/p>\n

The horn used by slotzkin1 is a Kohlert stencil with rolled tone holes. It is engraved: The Edgware Made For Boosey And Hawkes. <\/p>\n

I haven’t spent a lot of time studying Kohlert, since my buddy Pete Hales had already done a lot of research on the brand. What I do find interesting though, is that this stencil has split bell keys.<\/p>\n

Off the top of my head I can’t recall seeing a Kohlert-made Boosey and Hawkes stencil this old before.  <\/p>\n

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If you love this steampunk sax, pop on over to eBay<\/a> and grab it before it gets scooped up by someone else. The price is $1,200 US, and the seller offers worldwide shipping. <\/p>\n

Oh, and just an aside, if you’re a sax player; suffering from a G.A.S. attack; but are having a hard time justifying yet another saxophone purchase; then this steampunk sax might just be your ticket out of the proverbial dog house. \ud83d\ude09 \ud83d\ude06 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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