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A friend of mine has a problem with his sax (and I won't bore you with the details) but one of the things he needs to try is different necks on his Mark VI which I think is from the early 60s.
My question is what modern necks would fit a Mark VI? Since we don't have any after market necks here, he can only try necks from other tenors. To narrow the search, I was hoping to eliminate necks that definitely won't fit at all and are not worth trying. The tenors that are possible to find here are new Selmer SII and mostly SIII, maybe Reference, some Yanagisawa, and maybe Yamaha (I'm thinking probably the necks from different companies are completely too different?). By fit I mean physically fit the sax and also won't completely screw up intonation. Any other (especially more subjective) differences like sound, etc. are irelevent for my question.
Thanks!
A friend of mine has a problem with his sax (and I won't bore you with the details) but one of the things he needs to try is different necks on his Mark VI which I think is from the early 60s.
My question is what modern necks would fit a Mark VI? Since we don't have any after market necks here, he can only try necks from other tenors. To narrow the search, I was hoping to eliminate necks that definitely won't fit at all and are not worth trying. The tenors that are possible to find here are new Selmer SII and mostly SIII, maybe Reference, some Yanagisawa, and maybe Yamaha (I'm thinking probably the necks from different companies are completely too different?). By fit I mean physically fit the sax and also won't completely screw up intonation. Any other (especially more subjective) differences like sound, etc. are irelevent for my question.
Thanks!