{"id":12412,"date":"2021-01-22T18:45:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T20:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/version5\/?page_id=12412"},"modified":"2021-01-22T18:45:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T20:45:35","slug":"j-r-lafleur-son-varsity-alto-sax","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/version5\/about\/gear\/unusual-saxes\/j-r-lafleur-son-varsity-alto-sax\/","title":{"rendered":"J.R. Lafleur & Son Varsity Alto Sax"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Varsity,<\/a>My history with this quirky sax goes back more than a decade now, back to December 23, 2009, when I first saw it on eBay and wrote about it<\/a>. A fellow from the Metro Vancouver Region bought the horn and contacted me. We got together and I got to see this mystery horn up close and personal. Although any thoughts I had about it being a Hammerschmidt were quickly dispelled, speculation has abounded for more than a decade now about the origins of this mystery sax.<\/p>\n

Saxophone historians here in North America and all over Europe have been stumped. Yes, I have seen a couple more similar to this<\/a> in tenor and alto versions. Both happen to be engraved with the A.K. H\u00fcttl name. So no, it is not a one-off, but what exactly is it?<\/p>\n

To this day the question remains: Who exactly built this Varsity model for J.R. Lafleur? J.R. Lafleur didn’t generally build their own saxophones, they had them stencilled. But then again, A.K. H\u00fcttl wasn’t known for making saxophones either…. <\/p>\n

Although I can’t tell you give you the definitive answers to these two questions, I can provide you with the following:<\/p>\n

Horn Specs<\/h3>\n