APPRAISER: And the year was? GUEST: 1990-ish? APPRAISER: What you have is a Selmer saxophone. Selmer has been, from the beginning, uh, the preeminent brand of saxophones. All the best professional ...

Leather pads, metal resonator Colorless lacquer, engraved Henri SELMER Paris S80 C* mouthpiece SeleS case Aiming to make quality instruments available to a greater number of musicians, Axos ...

When he was asked to switch from alto to tenor one day ... like most other saxophones, was influenced by the Mark VI, play well. While Selmer’s Mark VII line, which followed the VI, is by ...

The saxophone has four principal components ... Fool around they did: in the twenty years that the Mark VI alto was manufactured, Selmer made at least seventy design changes.

Ten men and women huddle at their workbenches, silently adding hundreds of parts to perforated tubes of brass — the skeletons of alto saxophones ... like France's Selmer, or Yamaha of Japan ...

Finishing touches and assembly of Selmer's Axos series, a new collection less expensive than the company's other instruments, are completed in China. An alto saxophone costs 3,150 euros ($3,430 ...

Afrobeat legend Femi Kuti has been given a limited edition of Selmer Paris Alto Supreme 2022 saxophone ahead of his 60th birthday on June 16. The saxophone commemorates the 100th anniversary of ...

Type of saxophone: Saxes come in five basic varieties: Alto, tenor, soprano, bass, and baritone. The tenor is perhaps the jazziest of the bunch, but the alto is the real classic. It is also the ...

It was during this tour, when the troupe hit New York, that Manohari Singh purchased his adored saxophone—a Selmer alto sax, plated in gold. “He was in love with that sax,” says Kersi Lord ...

strolled through the crowd while holding a single note on his beloved Selmer soprano sax for a full two minutes. The trademark routine fell short of his 1977 Guinness world record for the longest ...