{"id":1130,"date":"2009-09-28T08:50:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T15:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/version5\/?page_id=1130"},"modified":"2018-10-21T09:43:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T16:43:36","slug":"klingsor-tenors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/version5\/about\/gear\/gone-but-not-forgotten\/klingsor-tenors\/","title":{"rendered":"Klingsor Tenors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Klingsor<\/a><\/p>\n

In the summer of ’09, I received an email that came completely out of the blue. My Sax On The Web\u00a0friend, Milandro, offered to sell me his 2\u00a0Klingsor tenor saxophones. I had written about both of these saxes on my blog, and had actually tried to help Milandro find a neck for the older, silver plated horn\u2014pictured on top\u2014when he first purchased it a year earlier. (This silver sax had been hanging in\u00a0the caf\u00e9 in The Netherlands for years. If you’re interested in reading more about its history, read my blog post for October 28, 2008<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Although I wasn’t really in the market for anymore vintage tenors, I felt I couldn’t let the opportunity to own\u00a02 Hammerschmidt tenor saxophones pass me by. Before I knew it,\u00a02 vintage Klingsors arrived via Canada Post from The Netherlands. The nickel plated horn sustained a slight bend in it’s high E key, but that was all the damage sustained by either of these\u00a02 vintage German beauties.<\/p>\n

The newer of the\u00a02 horns\u2014the nickel plated one\u2014is very playable. Like many vintage saxophones, it has its likes and dislikes with regards to mouthpiece and reed choices. I am still currently experimenting to get the optimum performance out of this sax. I can honestly say it is the darkest sounding tenor saxophone that I own, and have in playing condition. This saxophone prefers harder reeds, and seems to like my Dukoff D7 mouthpiece the best. (YMMV of course, and probably would significantly. Remember, I’m primarily a blues and rock player.)<\/p>\n

Nickel Plated Klingsor<\/span><\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n

Horn Specs:<\/span><\/p>\n