[speyman]

Check out this Tenor. I also thought the keywork on the Alto was interesting.

 

[csax]

How can I argue with anyone who uses a pic of Marty Feldman ( as Igor - in Young Frankenstein ) in his profile.......

The second (alto) pic looks a bit like a modern version of the extra RH keys that operated the bell notes, that some Buffets had in the early 1900's. Is this a quiz, or do you know which sax it's from ?

http://www.saxpics.com/the_gallery/buffet/misc/catalogsnmisc/1899ad.jpg

 

[Rick Adams]

I love it, even if does look like a customised fence post. I wonder how much it weighs? Would love to hear a sound clip...

 

[Dave dix]

I never knew IKEA made saxophones!! Watchout for woodworm
Dave

 

[SaxxMan]

Yikes...:shock:

I bet the ergos on that thing would FEEL just like playing a fence post too...

 

[saxfreak]

Interesting pictures. As for the tenor, at what point does this stop being considered a saxophone and becomes more of a bass clarinet with sax keywork?

 

[DeanSilliman]

Interesting pictures. As for the tenor, at what point does this stop being considered a saxophone and becomes more of a bass clarinet with sax keywork?

As long as it retains a conical bore.

Dean

 

[saxfreak]

As long as it retains a conical bore.

Good point.
With the wood tenor, in addition to all the headaches with mouthpiece, reeds, leaks, etc., now you also have to add in fear of termites!

 

[bbbouklas]

this horn might play great.. I love the wooden paraschos neck and they also look great. This sax is very akward looking.. I bet paraschos or another experinced woodwind manufacturer would be able to make a straight soprano, alto and tenor that wouldn't look loke a fence! They might even be able to make curved horns if some parts are split in halves (like the paroschos necks)...tarogatos which are conical-bored look great but they have clarinet-like keywork so I do not really consider them saxes..

 

[Swampcabbage]

But now we can tell this joke.

What's the difference between an Alto and Tenor sax? A Tenor burns longer.

 

[saxfreak]

I wonder if the sound changes with a different color wood stain?

 

[saxfreak]

I wonder if the sound changes with a different color wood stain?

 

[csax]

Maybe the wooden sax is the one they breed xaphoons from..... .

 

[58tenor]

I'd be afraid of sounding..........wooden. That would be worse than larruping.

 

[Randall]

Cmel, if you get a look at some of the older Oskar Adler German horns you will see similar right hand stack keys as that link you posted. I have one of the altos with the spatual keys over the right stack, waiting for an overhaul.

Speyman, what is your source for those pix? I want to see more.
The wooden horn looks like a contrabass recorder in many ways.

 

[speyman]

http://www.klassodern.ch/index.asp?inc=

Looks like the pictures are no longer on the site.

 

[Mactenor]

Now I know what really happened to Pinnochio, I never did buy into that nonsense that he turned into a "Real Boy"