[mark_m]

Only image I have.

 

[Reet McVouty]

It's a baritone sax.

 

[J-Moen]

It's a baritone sax.

Haha I almost said the same

 

[blaine hoopes]

Looks like it could be a Conn.

 

[milandro]

it could be anything that didn’t look like a Selmer Yamaha or Yanagisawa .

Conn is one of the options but why not Buescher? I am not sure even if on the pictures there are wire guards visible on the pigtail wich would point toward conn while if there were no wire guards it may be a Buescher

 

[Mike T]

Not all Conns have wire guards on the pigtail. My 1936 one doesn't, anyway — and never did. (On the other hand my 1964 12M does have the guards.)

This looks like an early 1930s 12M, but as milandro said, it could be a Beuscher, too. Really, we'd need to see some more details, such as the serial number area or the LH little finger table, to identify it.

 

[milandro]

but OP says it is the only picture...

Only image I have.

 

[Brenton]

It might be easier to identify the player? (Pic likely from the "summer of love" era?) Then...

 

[milandro]

could he be OP?

“ If You Remember the ’60s, You Really Weren’t There"

 

[mark_m]

Milandro: "A baritone sax" - Aha!


It's my late friend Steve MacKay, long before I knew him. Possibly early-mid 70's.

Also, I lied. Noticed this picture at end of the video the link to which is:

 

[blaine hoopes]

Is that a Conn X-brace I see in that picture? Like this Conn 12M?

 

[milandro]

looks like it may indeed be a conn, it has one of these brace on the bell which attaches to a stand (I used to have one like this)

 

[mark_m]

Is that a Conn X-brace I see in that picture? Like this Conn 12M?
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Yeah that could be a crossbar - good eyes!
(and thank you!)

 

[blaine hoopes]

Back in about 1972, I paid a visit to my old Junior High School band teacher and told him I had been buying old saxophones and overhauling them/selling them as a part time supplement to my income from playing gigs. I asked if he had any old horns he wanted to get rid of and he pulled out two Conn bari saxes (older than the pictures in this thread probably from 1925 ish) and said I could have them for $50 each. I didn't take them - they were pretty rough and it would have been a bit much for me to overhaul at my level of expertise back then (just getting started) - and I had a King Zephyr bari for my own playing so didn't need a bari for myself.

I've been kicking myself for the past almost 50 years for not grabbing those Conn baritones -- also for not grabbing the bass sax I was offered for $150 without a case (I didn't know how I would even get it home without a case - also had no idea how cool a bass would be - young and dumb)

 

[mark_m]

Back in about 1972, I paid a visit to my old Junior High School band teacher and told him I had been buying old saxophones and overhauling them/selling them as a part time supplement to my income from playing gigs. I asked if he had any old horns he wanted to get rid of and he pulled out two Conn bari saxes (older than the pictures in this thread probably from 1925 ish) and said I could have them for $50 each. I didn't take them - they were pretty rough and it would have been a bit much for me to overhaul at my level of expertise back then (just getting started) - and I had a King Zephyr bari for my own playing so didn't need a bari for myself.

I've been kicking myself for the past almost 50 years for not grabbing those Conn baritones -- also for not grabbing the bass sax I was offered for $150 without a case (I didn't know how I would even get it home without a case - also had no idea how cool a bass would be - young and dumb)

Best not to think too much about such things Cool btw you had the entrepreneurialism to make a little business of that!

 

[Mike T]

That link to Elephant Quilt Productions on the YouTube page cited above is dead. However, Steve Mackay (1949-2015) has his own Wikipedia page. He was in a shipload of bands, including Iggy Pop's backing band.

 

[mark_m]

That link to Elephant Quilt Productions on the YouTube page cited above is dead. However, Steve Mackay (1949-2015) has his own Wikipedia page. He was in a shipload of bands, including Iggy Pop's backing band.

He was indeed. I subbed for him in an SF bar band while he'd be off in Europe or doing something with the Stooges. Sweetest guy you'd ever meet. He only played his VI tenor so it was fun to find this video of him on bari!