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Clarinet Roadshow => Help and info about other instruments => Topic started by: Airflyte on January 10, 2021, 06:38:19 PM

Title: So, I dug out my '26 Buescher True Tone tenor sax . . .
Post by: Airflyte on January 10, 2021, 06:38:19 PM

. . . and was degunkehfying the neck and noticed this . . .

Are these initials?

Title: Re: So, I dug out my '26 Buescher True Tone tenor sax . . .
Post by: DaveLeBlanc on January 17, 2021, 12:06:14 PM

Interesting! Sure looks like it. I can't really read cursiev that well.

Title: Re: So, I dug out my '26 Buescher True Tone tenor sax . . .
Post by: DaveLeBlanc on January 17, 2021, 12:06:47 PM

Now that i think about it, if it's inside the neck its more likely a batch mark used when in production. Probably.

Title: Re: So, I dug out my '26 Buescher True Tone tenor sax . . .
Post by: Airflyte on January 19, 2021, 11:29:34 AM

That could be Dave. Written on the brass before the shaping process.

If that's true, just another observation of the maker leaving a "note" on an early instrument.