The brand is important, but the actual state of the instrument, especially of the slide or the valves, is more important I don't have any Bueschers in my 60++ piece collection, but what I would like to say as my personal experience of owning brasses of up to about 100 years of age is this: The 4 valve Conns appear to have something extra into their sonority, which I ascribe to the weight and to the added rigidity in the structure. I'm always looking for more info for this chart.I am a strong proponent of 4 valve sousaphones, for seated playing that is.
BEUSCHER SERIAL NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBERS
The standard info on Yamaha serial numbers is that they are not sequential and you need to contact Yamaha directly for information. However, these serials might apply to all Yamsaha instruments. These serial numbers are probably only for the Vito labeled YAS-21/23/25 stencils. Keep this in mind when attempting to date your instrument. Vito saxophones have been made by Vito (Wisconsin), Beaugnier, Leblanc, Yamaha, Jupiter and Yanagisawa. There are also occasional late-model stencils. Some very early SML saxophones were stencils. The SML A400/T400 are Asian-made stencils not made under the authority of SML and are not included in this chart.Ģ.
BEUSCHER SERIAL NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBER
If you ask them, EXCESSIVELY NICELY, about a serial number off a horn you own, they might tell you when it was made.ġ.
Leblanc does not give out serial number charts. The serial numbers listed here are for the German/Czech made instruments. Their serial number format is completely different. The modern Kohlert instruments are made in China or Taiwan. For a brief time, Bundy and Bundy Special saxophones were available from Keilwerth and Dörfler & Jörka, are stamped 'Made in Germany' and do not have a Bundy serial number.Įxcept for the ST-90 I and EX-90 I and II, the ST-90 and EX-90 were not made by Keilwerth and probably do not have Keilwerth serial numbers. Earlier horns were a mixture of Conn and Buescher stencils.Ģ. The Bundy in question here is from approximately 1950 to date. The modern Buffet 400 (and similar) are Asian-made and do not follow these serial number charts.ġ. In the 1990's, Keilwerth stenciled a saxophone for Buffet called the 'Expression' and that model has a Keilwerth serial number.Ģ. A small, but significant, percentage of all Buffet and/or Evette-Schaeffer woodwinds in the 1900-1930 range (or so) were Conn stencils and do not have Buffet serial numbers.
Horns stamped 'The Buescher Band Instrument Company' from the 1920's are stencils, as are the modern BU-series of horns available from Selmer, and follow different serial number charts.ġ. The vast majority of saxophones stamped 'Keefer' are stencils. To read more about stencils, please read my article HERE. A lot of the saxophones stamped 'Boosey and Hawkes' are stencil instruments. Boosey and Hawkes have been, since that time, sheet music producers and importers.Ģ. Hawkes produced their own instruments, for a time, and combined with Boosey in the 1930s. Boosey and Hawkes is a combination of the Boosey company and the Hawkes company. If you decided to play around with the serial numbers on, note that he doesn't differentiate between the Leblanc System (two/three versions), Rationale (whichever spelling you wish) and Semi Rationale (two versions).ġ. 1937, there is a grenade fruit with a number inside it stamped on the horn.
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