{"id":5259,"date":"2012-10-22T19:31:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T02:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/version5\/?page_id=5259"},"modified":"2014-02-05T10:15:29","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T17:15:29","slug":"wooden-german-sax","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/version5\/vintage-saxes\/sax-shaped-things\/blow-accordions\/wooden-german-sax\/","title":{"rendered":"Wooden German Sax"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Source: Smith and Lawson Collectibles<\/span><\/p>\n

This interesting, 8 key blow accordion is apparently German in origin. (According to seller at least.) The seller also noted that it is approximately 14″ x 4″.<\/p>\n

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Source: Vintagier<\/span><\/p>\n

In the fall of 2012 another one of these interesting blow accordions popped up on eBay. Maybe it was the same one, since it too was missing the number 5 key. (A wooden German sax without a #5 key, with what appears to be the same wear marks on it no less.)<\/del> Strike that. Now that I made the am in the process of redoing my website, and enlarging all photos to their full size, I took another look at the blow accordion. The wear marks are different. These are indeed 2 different instruments. In the above photo you can see that the keys were numbered 1 through 8.<\/p>\n

This seller speculated that the instrument was Czechoslovakian in origin. Also different were this seller’s measurements. According to Vintagier, the saxophone-shaped blow accordion is 15″ by 6″, with a bell of 2″ in diameter.<\/p>\n

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Source: Vintagier<\/span><\/p>\n

I can only speculate that one, or both, of these sellers was imprecise in their measuring. Or, that these are 2 different instruments, possibly made by different companies, which are indeed slightly different in size.<\/p>\n

Regardless which it is, it is safe to assume that this blow accordion was made in Europe in the early part of the 20th century.<\/p>\n

In March 2013, an eBay dealer was selling the following page from a 1927 Belknap Co. publication. It appears to show if not this wooden German sax, then one very similar to it.<\/p>\n

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Source: Mantiques and baseball on eBay.com<\/span><\/p>\n

Notice the price difference between these blow accordions and the Hohner Sax<\/a>. A dealer could buy a dozen 8-key wooden blow accordions, for just slightly more than it would cost to buy 2 Hohner Saxes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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