338xxx King Super 20 Alto Repad

This was one of those jobs where everything went my way.  There is an awful lot in the job of saxophone repair- and probably any job that requires working with aged mechanisms and variable materials- where a certain amount of it just depends on which way the wind blows.  You could get a pad seated …

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Crossroads of Saxophone Craftsmanship

Yesterday evening, I found out that the Powell Silver Eagle project had been “suspended”.  The Powell Silver Eagle was a made-in-America high-end saxophone being built by a partnership between E. K. Blessing (based in Elkhart) and Powell Flutes.  To reduce this partnership to extreme basics, you have lots of money (Powell) combined with know-how and tooling …

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