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JayeSF
03-15-2009, 03:03 AM
It's a Made in Italy horn, am trying to figure out who might have made it.

Does this look familiar ?
SaxPlayer1004
03-15-2009, 03:04 AM
Looks like the table on my King Voll-True II
HUTMO
03-15-2009, 04:02 AM
check out that bell bracing rod.

Yikes.
DavyRay
03-15-2009, 04:07 AM
It looks like other Italian saxophones which copied the Conn features. Rampone or Orsi, perhaps. It is a tenor or alto? More pictures would help place it. Some of these were very good players. Others were less good.
JayeSF
03-15-2009, 07:27 AM
Hey, thanks for the replies.

Well....I think the bracing rod is hecka cool, actually:rr:

Here's a couple of other pics......
Shirish
08-03-2009, 11:17 PM
I'm very sure this is an old Borgani I've seen one
milandro
08-04-2009, 07:04 AM
by the looks of the brace this is an Italian Horn. I am positive we saw that brace earlier in a horn identified as Alfonso Rampone ( not Rampone & Cazzani) there is always the possibility that this is a Desidera horn (very little is known about this brand) I would tend to disagree about the Borgani provenance but the good thing is that the company is still active and that you can send Orfeo Borgani some pictures and ask him
http://www.borgani.com/
Shirish
08-04-2009, 07:11 AM
I don't know bout the brace but I saw those pinky keys and rods on a very old borgani. Silver plated with gold wash bell it was.
milandro
08-04-2009, 07:28 AM
Anyway, one thing is for sure and that is that this is not a Grassi (as one would think from this thread being in the Grassi section)
JayeSF
08-05-2009, 07:37 AM
...jeez...quite honestly...that was from an eFlay auction so long ago, I swear I can't even remember the horn at all....

hehehe...I kept looking at this thread title without opening it and thinking "hmmm...that seems familiar...did I start that thread ?"

....maybe I posted it here because the seller was suggesting it to be Grassi.....

????

It's OK, though...if not for this thread the poor Grassi section wouldn't''a had any action for 2-1/2 months....
milandro
08-05-2009, 08:00 AM
I am confident to say it is not an Orsi, a Grassi or a Rampone& Cazzani (although there is a special model which they always refer to as their pinnacle that could be this). This leaves Alfonso Rampone , Borgani, Desidera and let's not forget that Stowasser had a factory in Italy (which I belive became Desidera)
al9672
08-05-2009, 10:00 AM
A.Rampone

Sorry about the sizes


Here you go , almost identical

A.Rampone table keys
http://www.alexthegeek.com/instruments/rampone_alto/IMG_1676.JPG
http://www.alexthegeek.com/instruments/rampone_alto/IMG_1677.JPG


What about the right hand pinky keys

A.Rampone
http://www.alexthegeek.com/instruments/rampone_alto/IMG_1679.JPG
http://www.alexthegeek.com/instruments/rampone_alto/IMG_1681.JPG