Borgani Soprano: Worth a try?

[supruet]

Seen on eBay, is it worth a try?

http://cgi.ebay.com/BORGANI-SOPRANO-SAXOPHONE-BARELY-BEEN-PLAYED-PRISTINE_W0QQitemZ300263044625QQcmdZViewItem?hash= item300263044625&_trkparms=39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A10%7C240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

Please advice. Thank you in advance.

[tenor71363]

Maybe if it was around $1300.

[Redbeard]

Borganis are hard to figure out. That particular soprano does not have
adjustment screws on the bar by g#, has their simpler LH pinky pad
and doesn't have the modern logo. It also has a higher serial number, which may mean it comes at the end of the their older production of very uneven quality.
I would take a chance on it at $500, but no more. I have a curved soprano
of the Ponzol-Borgani type (about 1998, I think but don't know for sure). It
plays incredibly well, though it also has the older LH pinky pad. I put up
with that because the sound is really nice, and I got the horn for $550. It
is possible that they were experimenting with their metallurgy or something,
and that some of the horns just before they switched to the Jubilee horns
are really good, but cheap.

[wmclean]

I contacted Borgani re this listing and they claimed that it was their student/intermediate level sax. It is not a Jubilee.

W.