it’s as finished as i can make it, but it’s missing the upper octave key (orin’s father has it, for some unknown reason), but it makes all the correct popping noises when i close the keys, and with a piece of tape over the upper octave tone hole, i was able to play all the way down to Bb without any difficulty… and i figure if i can play it, there’s a good chance that an experienced sax player without a brain injury will do just fine.
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
i also put a new mouthpiece cork on the neck, but, alas, i will have to wait for orin to get the key from his father before i can actually finish the horn…
 |
 |
i think bassoons are a lot easier, actually… there’s more direct linkage and fewer places where there are three or four keys that need to register at the same time… and besides, no other instrument has push rods that actually go through the instrument… 8)
Saxophones aren’t nearly the pain in the ass that bassoons are to repair…
it’s actually the colour of the instrument… apparently somebody home-relacquered it without buffing it first, and it’s kind of dingy… and it has blue keys because they used blue lacquer, but it’s not baked on and it could be cellulose lacquer because it was coming off when i was leveling the pads.
You going to polish it or does he prefer the “patina”?
Me, I’d go for the shiny (ooooh! shiny things!) but it’s not my horn.
HH