mister_bronson
03-22-2005, 05:08 PM
I fell upon a Pierret super "artiste" tenor sax. At the bottom there's another engraving mentioning it was tried by some bloke by the name of Pointboeuf (?), i guess he had a lot of work "trying" all the saxes out before selling them :)
I'd have to say it wasn't in top condition (some of the keys were a bit shaky/loose, and i couldn't have missed a rather clumsy resoldering work on one spot : a blotch in order to cover what was certainly a hole previously - i think it might have been the player himself who attempted the repair).
Nevertheless, i was wondering if it was anything of a rare find or not ?
I also noticed that it was refered to as a Dolnet on the price tag...i believe the
store just slapped the label from a previous sale (hence maybe a Dolnet sax they sold) on this sax. Unless there were Dolnet/Pierret stencils... ?
For the pros, the reference number of the sax is 13.528. I thought maybe i'd put it just in case the serial number would give an indication of its quality or not (like Conns or Kings)...
Oh, and of course one last thing : i couldn't try it because the reed that was on the mouthpiece must have been almost as old as the sax. Even had i overcome the apprehension of playing on such an old looking, germ
infested piece of wood, it wouldn't have been possible due to the fact that it was split almost halfway down in numerous areas!!! It looked more like a palm tree than a reed.
I'd have to say it wasn't in top condition (some of the keys were a bit shaky/loose, and i couldn't have missed a rather clumsy resoldering work on one spot : a blotch in order to cover what was certainly a hole previously - i think it might have been the player himself who attempted the repair).
Nevertheless, i was wondering if it was anything of a rare find or not ?
I also noticed that it was refered to as a Dolnet on the price tag...i believe the
store just slapped the label from a previous sale (hence maybe a Dolnet sax they sold) on this sax. Unless there were Dolnet/Pierret stencils... ?
For the pros, the reference number of the sax is 13.528. I thought maybe i'd put it just in case the serial number would give an indication of its quality or not (like Conns or Kings)...
Oh, and of course one last thing : i couldn't try it because the reed that was on the mouthpiece must have been almost as old as the sax. Even had i overcome the apprehension of playing on such an old looking, germ
infested piece of wood, it wouldn't have been possible due to the fact that it was split almost halfway down in numerous areas!!! It looked more like a palm tree than a reed.