Prettiest Sax of the Moment

**pete** · 04-24-2012, 04:05 AM

I'm just doing some Internet cruisin' tonight. I came across a horn I had lost awhile back. I give you a Rampone and Cazzani bari from quite awhile ago: it's only keyed to alt. Eb. I would assume that would mean that the horn was made around the time R&C combined, which *I think) was around 1925.

http://www.shwoodwind.co.uk/misc/Rampone.htm

**Jacques5646** · 04-24-2012, 12:35 PM

Splendid item, indeed. What is this double key ? A subtle way to half tones ?
J

**pete** · 04-25-2012, 03:01 AM

The interesting key on top of a key, which you can see in the linky, is an Eb vent for the fork Eb fingering. The setup that the R&C has isn't terribly common, but it's been used before.

**pete** · 05-02-2012, 04:25 AM

As always, you browse for something else, and you find something that you weren't looking for, but wanted to find. In this case, the bass saxophone brother to the above.

I might buy this postcard.

**kymarto** · 05-03-2012, 05:11 AM

very juicy indeed!

**kevgermany** · 05-07-2012, 12:09 PM

For me the prettiest saxes are the early 20th century A Sax models with the curved wire keyguards.

**pete** · 05-18-2012, 04:16 AM

Renoux Bourges Super Rex. (I'm somewhat confident it's a Pierret stencil.) Check out those keyguards!

**kevgermany** · 05-18-2012, 08:02 AM

Originally Posted by pete

Renoux Bourges Super Rex. (I'm somewhat confident it's a Pierret stencil.) Check out those keyguards!

Now that's very different. Looks to be in super condition as well.

Have never heard of the maker. Do you think that's a micro tuner neck?

Perhaps this helps:

http://luthiervents.blogspot.de/2011...-centre-f.html
http://luthiervents.blogspot.de/2010...e-bourges.html

**pete** · 05-18-2012, 07:41 PM

Originally Posted by kevgermany

Now that's very different. Looks to be in super condition as well.

Have never heard of the maker. Do you think that's a micro tuner neck?

Perhaps this helps:

http://luthiervents.blogspot.de/2011...-centre-f.html
http://luthiervents.blogspot.de/2010...e-bourges.html

Based on those posts, I'd say my "Pierret" idea just got shot down

. (BTB, I've mentioned the Luthier Vents blog before. It's exceptionally kewl.)

That does look like a micro tuner neck. Microtuners were very popular on French-made instruments!

**Helen** · 05-18-2012, 10:20 PM

I was going to say "not Pierret", but I see you reached the same conclusion. I'm however, basing my opinion on the horn, not on the Google-translated French to English.

The key guards were the only thing that kinda' reminded me of the latter model Pierrets (Super Artiste, Competition, etc). That said, even those weren't quite the same, and Pierret was not known for varying their designs from their originals for their stencils.