Stephanhouser Saxophone. Seriously?

[rodelliot]

I ran across a great player on Youtube named Shawn Thunder Wallance and he endorses Stephanhouser saxophones. I'm not at all interested in one of these but I am curious if anyone has played one.

Thunder puts his through the paces on this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NucwTNR8xJc but I've never seen anyone else playing one of these.

Taiwan? China? Somewhere else in Asia? The link on Thunder's website for Stephanhouser doesn't work.

[NissanVintageSax]

B&S for Stephanhouser I believe? Anyway, no they are not asain (I was surprised too!), but indeed as German as the name :) .

[jacobeid]

Professor Wallace is always talking about you only need a certain caliber of horn to play well. Me? I've played a bunch of Stephanhousers and I would take a YAS-23 over one any day of the week. In my opinion, much worse than anything coming out of Taiwan.

[divisi]

B&S for Stephanhouser I believe? Anyway, no they are not asain (I was surprised too!), but indeed as German as the name :) .

Last I heard B&S is no longer making saxophones. I was talking to a salesman locally that sells them and if I remember correctly he told me they were maid in asia somewhere. Anyway, my son is a student of Shawn's and he has told me the alto Shawn is playing is a custom built horn (non production). I do believe that his tenor however is a production horn.

[jacobeid]

I should add that Shawn is a monster player and a great friend of my teacher.

[awholley]

The one I played a few years ago was excellent. I was waiting for a repair to be finished and the repairman told me to pick up the sax on display in the store and let him know what I thought. What I thought was that it played as well as my Series III selmer alto and sounded better (darker).

My understanding at that time was that these were imported from Taiwan by a company here in TX that had made some patented mechanism changes.

[modman]

B&S for Stephanhouser I believe? Anyway, no they are not asain (I was surprised too!), but indeed as German as the name :) .

Distributed by the Elkhart, Indiana-based Gemstone Musical Instruments, Stephanhouser creates alto, tenor, soprano, and baritone saxophones for musicians at all levels, from student to professional. Stephanhöuser received three United States patents in less than five years of operation. The Stephanhouser innovations include the ScrewLess pin design, which eliminates pivot screws in post rods and enhances instrument durability, a procedure for creating a saxophone bow out of a single piece of brass for a more resonant sound, and a more precise octave key design. The Stephanhouser brand was created and developed by Dane Scott Stephens of Castroville, Texas in 2001

I played the LQ-1500 Alto for awhile. It is a decent horn that sounds alot like a Yanigasawa or Yamaha 62II.

It was one of my first forays in to the Taiwanese market. I do not recommend these stock models for professionals though.

Shawn Wallace has a one of a kind custom Stephanhouser not available to the public although I bet he could make a $99 Cecilio sound great.

B8-)

[wogeax]

I had one. It was actually much better than my yas23. I'm guessing they were/are made in same manner as the antiguas/jupiters etc.. (parts are taiwanese in origin)

[modman]

I had one. It was actually much better than my yas23. I'm guessing they were/are made in same manner as the antiguas/jupiters etc.. (parts are taiwanese in origin)

All of those horns you mentioned ARE manufactured in Taiwan with taiwanese parts. :)

B:8-)

[milandro]

Stephanhouser is not German (!) but made in Taiwan, many models were developed by someone called Derek Lin who is also a maker that has sold under his own name of Soar HiQ . They are the real deal and made very well indeed as many other Taiwanese instruments are.

[modman]

stephanhouser is not german (!) but made in taiwan, many models were developed by someone called derek lin who is also a maker that has sold under his own name of soar hiq . They are the real deal and made very well indeed as many other taiwanese instruments are.

refer to post #7 please. B8-)

[milandro]

stephanhouser is not german (!) but made in taiwan, many models were developed by someone called derek lin who is also a maker that has sold under his own name of soar hiq . They are the real deal and made very well indeed as many other taiwanese instruments are.

refer to post #7 please. B8-)

yes I saw that plenty of correct other info but I thought of mentioning Derek Lin who is the taiwanese counterpart who helped the production of these horns.

As you can clearly read here, for example.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/112359795.html