Hohner Brochure – circa 1950

Some Of The President’s Features In Pretty Pictures

For this page of features, I am including photos of actual Hohner President saxophones that illustrate what these features look like in real life. These photos are included after the scanned imaged. A description of each feature will precede each photo.

Quick action automatic octave mechanism

While the quick action octave mechanism may be similar, what is very noticeable between the President in the illustration above, and my former tenor 104XX below, is the neck/socket assembly. Mine has the Ges.- Gesch. (legally protected) double socket. Although the round thumb screw that fastens the neck is not visible in the photo, the matching lyre-holding screw that Hohner used is. What is also visible in the photo below is the long socket that accepts the neck tenon.

If you closely look at the same area in the horn illustrated in the brochure above, you will notice that Hohner used a conventional screw to fasten the neck. This was done prior to the introduction of the double socket neck. (See page 3 for a full discussion of this feature.)

Left palm & pinkie keys

There was not a great deal of change to the left palm keys and pinkie cluster, although the shape of the cluster did change a bit.

Compare the above illustration to the photo of tenor 8943 below. The G# key is shaped differently. In the sax shown in the brochure, the G# key almost has the shape of a mountain, complete with a sharp peak. This G# would continue to change over the horn’s production run, and is illustrated on the Hohner page.