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1924 Martin Handcraft Alto Sax - Low Pitch - $200 (Northwest Arvada)

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condition: fair
make / manufacturer: Martin
model name / number: Handcraft Alto Sax

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This is a cool, 100 year old Martin Handcraft Alto Saxophone. This saxophone will need some work to be playable. Pads have come off, the neck needs cork, the pivots are sticky, and the there are a couple springs that will need to be replaced. It looks to be all there, and has two mouthpieces. There is still quite a bit of the silver finish left.

This is a "Low Pitch" model which means it is tuned to A440 like current instruments.

I stole this background information on the Martin Handcraft from the webs:

"This sax is one of the very finest saxophones ever made by the Martin company, Elkhart, Indiana. Back in the mid 1920’s during the saxophone craze, Martin along with Conn, Buescher, King and Selmer made the worlds top professional saxophones of the era. Today these companies, known as the big 5, are so highly collectible because of how they play. Handmade by the finest skilled craftsmen of all time, the best horns originated anywhere between the 1920’s to the 1950’s.

A musical instrument company that for many years competed favorably with larger players Conn and Buescher (no relationship to E.F. Martin Guitars). Vintage Martin saxophones are usually identifiable by beveled, soldered-on tone holes, a very round tear-drop shaped octave key button, and wide rectangular G# keys (except for the “typewriter” model that experimented with pearls on all of the left pinky keys). Like its competitors, Martin continually introduced improves horns until the 1960’s. Unfortunately an attempted merger with Blessing and Reynolds in 1961 never really worked out; in 1964, Martin was bought out by Wurlitzer. In 1971 the factory closed. Leblanc owns the rights to the Martin name and occasionally makes an instrument labeled as a Martin; however the legacy of Martin engineering has disappeared."

Let me know if you have any questions. I am not a sax player so I will try my best to answer them

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Karl

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