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There are many but old references to these horns generally as a question about strange short range altos which someone even thought it was a F saxophone.
https://forum.saxontheweb.net/showthr...t-is-this-one-!
https://forum.saxontheweb.net/showthr...4-Indian-Saxes
https://forum.saxontheweb.net/showthr...ings-or-serial
https://forum.saxontheweb.net/showthr...t-red-pads-huh
https://forum.saxontheweb.net/showthr...something-else
If I had 1$ for every time I see one of those advertised (normally as attic finds) I’d be a wealthier man if not a rich one. SSO warning ( Saxophone Shaped object)
I used to email the people to tell them that they were mistaken and that whatever they thought it was a saxophone was an object, made in India, unplayable and that coudln’t be made to play, at best a copy of an High Pitch saxophone.
Often they bear the Stamp “ Boosey Bessons” ( there was a company called Besson but not Bessons) and are part of sets which include a pocket trumpet and a Alto Horn all with the same serial number!
Boosey
Bessons & Co
London W.C.
75983
Many other people warn potential buyers about these “ instruments”
this is the pocket “ trumpet”
http://www.pocketcornets.com/html/counterfeit_pockets.html
The saxophone version comes almost invariably in a carton case
and looks like this
Sometimes there are brass or nickel versions without any name but the shape is always the same.
Red thick pads (unless someone has had a go at repadding these things) are another giveaway, red, generally broken, bad plastic rollers another.
Why am I writing this (which I would put among the articles)?
Is because I really take pity on the people whom may think that they are buying a real ancient instrument, while they are buying a relatively new made piece of junk!
This is from a Dutch site
https://forum.saxontheweb.net/showthr...t-is-this-one-!
https://forum.saxontheweb.net/showthr...4-Indian-Saxes
https://forum.saxontheweb.net/showthr...ings-or-serial
https://forum.saxontheweb.net/showthr...t-red-pads-huh
https://forum.saxontheweb.net/showthr...something-else
If I had 1$ for every time I see one of those advertised (normally as attic finds) I’d be a wealthier man if not a rich one. SSO warning ( Saxophone Shaped object)
I used to email the people to tell them that they were mistaken and that whatever they thought it was a saxophone was an object, made in India, unplayable and that coudln’t be made to play, at best a copy of an High Pitch saxophone.
Often they bear the Stamp “ Boosey Bessons” ( there was a company called Besson but not Bessons) and are part of sets which include a pocket trumpet and a Alto Horn all with the same serial number!
Boosey
Bessons & Co
London W.C.
75983
Many other people warn potential buyers about these “ instruments”
this is the pocket “ trumpet”
http://www.pocketcornets.com/html/counterfeit_pockets.html

The saxophone version comes almost invariably in a carton case
and looks like this



Sometimes there are brass or nickel versions without any name but the shape is always the same.
Red thick pads (unless someone has had a go at repadding these things) are another giveaway, red, generally broken, bad plastic rollers another.
Why am I writing this (which I would put among the articles)?
Is because I really take pity on the people whom may think that they are buying a real ancient instrument, while they are buying a relatively new made piece of junk!
This is from a Dutch site