kelly
User ID: 9892733
| Jan 30th 1:04 PM
with the sparkle lacquer
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1508307007&r=0&t=0&showTutorial=0&ed=1012932869&indexURL=0&rd=1
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kelly
User ID: 9892733
| Jan 30th 1:11 PM
not mine, BTW
This is the same sparkle treatment as on the tenors listed on Saxpic's site, and the beautiful tenor in the CyberSax archives. Looks almost like a metal-flake. Buffet also put out some horns with a scratch-sparkle treatment, as if sublayers of lacquer were scored with coarse steel wool yielding fine parallel lines. My SDA alto (17xxx) has it on the keys, rods, and guards. Are there any others out there, or is mine a freak?
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fred
User ID: 8820133
| Jan 30th 1:22 PM
those are stress fractures from when the horn was re-straightened after if fell off the bandstand and got trodden on !
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kelly
User ID: 9892733
| Jan 30th 1:24 PM
Rats. I thought the guy who sold it to me was kidding when he told me that!
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Peter Kossits
User ID: 8875883
| Jan 30th 5:01 PM
Looks nice. Any guesses as to what the reserve might be?
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Kelly
User ID: 9892733
| Jan 30th 5:34 PM
Based on recent e-bay auctions for clean SDA altos, I'd guess a reasonable reserve would be around $800-$900 if there's nothing else about the horn's condition that the seller has to disclose. Reserves are a matter of choice, however.
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