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Author Topic: So, I dug out my '26 Buescher True Tone tenor sax . . .  (Read 1562 times)

Offline Airflyte

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So, I dug out my '26 Buescher True Tone tenor sax . . .
« on: January 10, 2021, 06:38:19 PM »
. . . and was degunkehfying the neck and noticed this . . .

Are these initials?






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Re: So, I dug out my '26 Buescher True Tone tenor sax . . .
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2021, 12:06:14 PM »
Interesting! Sure looks like it. I can't really read cursiev that well.
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Re: So, I dug out my '26 Buescher True Tone tenor sax . . .
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: So, I dug out my '26 Buescher True Tone tenor sax . . .
« Reply #3 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.
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