Majestic Tenor

[AlistairD]

Hi,

Does anyone know anything about the Majestic R&C Tenor? It looks to have a silver plated body with solid silver keys?

Is this a "student" or "professional" model?

Many thanks....

[pepesax]

What's a Majestic R&C Tenor? I'm curious about it.
I own a R&C R1 Jazz tenor, but never heard that Rampone & Cazzani produced such a model. Their actual catalogue includes 4 models: Super, Deluxe, R1 and R1Jazz. This is their link:http://www.ramponecazzani.it/static/english/index.php.
Cheers

[AlistairD]

Pepesax,

The sax is on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=7391006949&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT

From what the seller is saying they used to have three versions:

Super
Deluxe
Majestic


Does this mean that the Majestic has been replaced by the R1?

[pepesax]

Thank you Alastair D,
didn't know about the existance of the R&C Majestic model. The actual owners of R&C labs have taken up the production in the early 1990's and must have changed models. The Majestic looks like a precursor of the R1, with similar shape and keywork and maybe some adjustments in ergonomics, but don't know anything about materials used.

[hornimus]

....with solid silver keys?

Is this a "student" or "professional" model?

Sounds more like the "collector" model.... why on earth would they use sterling for the keywork? Whatever, I think I'll have to bid on this one, thanks for the heads-up ... (just kidding ;))

[AlistairD]

Wind.miller...

By all means bid if you want too... It looks interesting but I'm not sure its the one for me anyway....

[Gabeg]

Hi everyone. I have the Majestic R & C tenor on ebay. I also have one of the Deluxe versions. They were owned by my Dad who imported several of these saxes from Italy in 1988/89. In those days they came in three grades, as already mentioned: Super, Deluxe and Majestic. The Majestic is the professional model. It has a brass lacquered body and silver plated keys - I know they are not solid silver, as mine has a bit of wear and you can see they are brass underneath. This horn plays really well and is beautifully made. I don't know when this model was deleted. The Deluxe has a slightly brighter sound, for my money. There does not seem to be a huge difference between them, but the Majestic is more solid an dcomes in a nicer case!