Yo. Repair Guys. You're Doing it Wrong.

[pete]

You should break it MORE. Then drop it into cement.

I was fiiddling around with the Christie's auction website to look up something completely unrelated, and I found this piece of art by Fernandez Arman, called "Saxophone." It sold for $71,394.

(I can't find a bigger pic, but the horn is either an Evette-Schaeffer or one "borrowing" their patent: it's got the extra keys for C#/B/Bb above the D/E/F keys.)

 

[Steve]

You know it does cost good money to rent a steam roller.

Techs have always said to rent a steam roller for certain instruments.
I guess someone has actually gone and done it now ...

 

[Gandalfe]

We can fix this.

 

[Tony Fairbridge]

I've had instruments come in that were worse than that. Why, only last week....................................!

 

[Steve]

We can fix this.

Why fix it?

I'm sure the owner was playing sharp all the time. This process, of course, flattens it a bit

 

[jbtsax]

You only have to sell one. BTW shouldn't this be in the "How Much Is My Horn Worth" section?

 

[Ady Saxman]

The 'Art of Noise'?

 

[KMP]

The vertical format bothers me, IMO it should be horizontal (open case). Here's a question to the sax players: Given the opportunity, would you hang it on the wall (of your living room, studio, whatever)?

 

[Helen]

The vertical format bothers me, IMO it should be horizontal (open case).

Takes up less room that way.

Here's a question to the sax players: Given the opportunity, would you hang it on the wall (of your living room, studio, whatever)?

Absolutely. I have crushed one in my studio now. Used to hang on the wall. Now it lays on the fireplace hearth.