Bb or C tenor?
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Please give us a clue....a photograph or sound
clip would be helpful.
Oops! Sorry, forgot the link.
http://www.shopgoodwill.com/viewItem.asp?ItemID=8043982
http://www.shopgoodwill.com/viewItem.asp?ItemID=8043982
I copied the photos from the site and tried to download them to this message. After 10 minutes of waiting for the download to finish I gave up. I had no problem getting on the site. I got there by clicking on the link in the thread. How frustrating.
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on my mac both safari and firefox don't load the page, I can't even load the home page! http://www.shopgoodwill.com
Thanks, I think you're right. I have a 1919 Buescher C that looks very similar. Even the sillouette face as a brace on the neck looks the same. I'm not familiar with antique tenor Bueschers, mine is from the 50's and is lacquer not silver plate. It looks like a nice horn though.
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Almost certainly a Bb tenor...judged by the relative lengths of the body tube to bell length.
The bell of a C tenor would be longer.
Nice looking horn.
The bell of a C tenor would be longer.
Nice looking horn.
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Seems to be a slight Goodwill problem - I now get "We're sorry - The site is currently under maintenance, please check back again shortly.", so maybe they're upgrading on a quiet Sunday, and it comes and goes...
(edit) Heheh - when I came back in a little while later to see if the link works now, all I got was a SoTW message - "The SOTW forum on this server is down for data base back-up" - as it's raining, I guess a little snooze would be in order...zzz...
(edit) Heheh - when I came back in a little while later to see if the link works now, all I got was a SoTW message - "The SOTW forum on this server is down for data base back-up" - as it's raining, I guess a little snooze would be in order...zzz...
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a C tenor has a pad and guard directly above the thumb rest , a Bb does not...looks like a Bb to me
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Bb Tenor for sure.
The file up-loader here is atrociously bad. :evil: I can get it to work less than half of the time. :soapbox:
The file up-loader here is atrociously bad. :evil: I can get it to work less than half of the time. :soapbox:
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Yes, it's almost certainly a Bb tenor, one picture definitely shows the bottom leg of the bell 'B' guard is literally on the bell-to-bow joint, on every Buescher C-Mel I've seen (including the two I have here at the moment) it's about an inch further up the bell, well clear of the joint - there is a very obvious difference.
My 'split' Martin vintage Bb tenor 'B leg' is also on the bow joint, whereas a C isn't.
(And I've just stabbed my thumb on a bl**dy spring, checking, grrrr and ouch, blood everywhere...)
My 'split' Martin vintage Bb tenor 'B leg' is also on the bow joint, whereas a C isn't.
(And I've just stabbed my thumb on a bl**dy spring, checking, grrrr and ouch, blood everywhere...)
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Was it not you who advised us to always slide a piece of small tubing, like electrical wire insulation, over the springs to prevent just that? :mrgreen:
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None of my saxes has 800 springs....I slide off enough insulation to cover the length of a spring.
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Yersss... It's a 'fair cop guv' - but in my defence the sax has only just been stripped, 'pre overhaul', so I haven't got around to putting the three miles of sleeving over the springs yet [rolleyes].
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