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I don't have any such friends. You tell me what I would hear.

My friend, get me a Superbalanced Action, I will play it, and get back to you.

. BTW, the "Reference" horns are not reproductions of the BA & MK6 although they are similar in some ways.[/QUOTE]

Just to make myself clearer: I wasn't claiming that anything is a reproduction of...

Really? It's just that simple, huh?

I'm going to go out on a limb here, but at least I think that what I will suggest here has a great deal of truth in it. People keep saying that the Superaction 80 (Serie I-III) is a "modern" horn. It...

Moved to its own thread--out of place here.

The standard opinion you will hear is that the Serie II is a classical horn, and the Serie III is more of a jazz horn. But many other players will disagree. The Serie II horn is a flexible horn, and...

He really doesn't say much about how the two horns sound different.
Here is another comparison:

http://www.sax.co.uk/index2.html

For what it's worth, here is a band of young musicians playing 20's big band jazz. I think the tenor is a Mark VI, but I talked to one of the altoists, and he said they were playing Serie IIs or...

For jazz, Gerald Albright comes to mind as a Serie II altoist. He of course plays on his own line of Cannonball altos now.

For jazz, Miles Osland played both tenor and alto Serie II for some...

I do see a pearl instead of a teardrop, now that you point that out. My Serie II tenor was made a few years earlier than this recording, and it too has the teardrop instead of the pearl.

Here's Johnny Griffin playing his Serie II tenor in 1994 in Orvieto, Italy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEN0bNU96kc

Great sounds, Roger and Greg!

You can watch and listen to Jay Thomas on a Serie II and Serie III tenor. He plays the Serie II only for about forty seconds, then moves on to the Serie III, which he clearly likes better. But the...

The late, great Johnny Griffin helped design that horn, and played on it in such albums as THE CAT. It demonstrates what can be done on a Serie II tenor. I have read on the internet (although I don't...

I really like mine. I know what people mean when they say that the Serie III alto is bright.
If you have the money, though, invest in a Selmer red brass neck--this will darken and focus the tone...

Selmer Serie III alto matt finish with Serie red brass neck (really darkens and focuses the sound). I use various mouthpieces. The one I use right now is an Bamber Concert mouthpiece (for my attempts...

Back to the original point, you used the word ergonomics, yea I can dig that.
Then I think at that point they switched horns and found new colours to play with which possibly could be easier to...

One of my teachers who remembers jazz musicians shifting from Conn, Buescher, Martin, and King, to Selmer, says that at the time, they all admitted that the American horns sounded better, but Selmer...

WHAT!!!!! :twisted: :shock:[/QUOTE]


Yes, I was just as surprised as you are.[/QUOTE]

Add my surprise.:shock:[/QUOTE]



I've listened to other players in other similar bands play vintage...