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1. Buescher 400 tenor sax serial numbers serial numbers#
2. Buescher 400 tenor sax serial numbers serial number#
3. Buescher 400 tenor sax serial numbers free#

Today theres really no reason to own a High Pitch horn except as a collectible or maybe as a lamp stand. Since there were still High Pitch horns around - even on store shelves - for the first few decades, companies stamped either the words Low Pitch or the letter L near the serial number. Those horns are compatible with modern bands, orchestras, and pianos. When asked why he doesnt go to Hollywood instead, he says, I dont want to do it the easy way.įor some brands Vintage starts as early as 1914 or as late as 1918.įor others it ends as late as 1978, but its a good rule of thumb. Thats right up there with the old joke about the guy trying to break into the movies in Hoboken, Pennsylvania. Youll also find our article Shopping for C Melody Saxes helpful. To start there, please jump to our Evaluating Used Saxophones article. Whats more, almost all 1914-1963 vintage horns could be restored to playability, if all the pieces are still there and they havent suffered catastropohic damage.Īnd many surviving recordings of swing, jazz, rock, and even orchestral saxophones recorded before 1960 were made with those same horns. Nearly all American, European, and even Japanese saxophones made before 1980 are more solid than the average saxophone coming out of China today.

Buescher 400 tenor sax serial numbers serial numbers#

The first series was made in 1937 with serial numbers 24xxx and the second in 1939 with serial numbers 27xxx.įor a discussion of the kinds of ergonomic improvements that were made before and during this revolution in the industry, please see our article on Saxophone Ergonomics.

Buescher 400 tenor sax serial numbers serial number#

Instruments manufactured after 1936 range in serial number from 1350-3600.Įven so, its possible from this record to assemble a basic serial number chart for these instruments.īy comparing early verses later instruments, it becomes clear that some Adolphe Sax Selmer saxophones were assembled from the old Adolphe Sax tooling and other were put togther using parts and tooling from the Selmer St. There is a fairly detailed record of these instruments recorded in a log book in the Selmer archives in Paris up to 1936 through serial number 1364.

Buescher 400 tenor sax serial numbers free#

If you happen to have any additional information that would make this chart MORE accurate, please feel free to email me. I also gathered information for this page from website that cites Albert Mensinga as the source for MANY of the serial numbers. I do not know if an Elkhart Serial number list exists or not.īig Thanks to Dr Rick's Vinllage Flute and Sax Shop website for providing some of the serial numbers and years produced. If you see one of these horns and the owner is claiming they are from the 1920s or 1930s or before, then they are using the wrong serial number chart. Most were made post World War II possibly up to 1960. These instruments had their OWN serial numbering system.

They also bear the inscription "BUILT BY BUESCHER". The Valveīlock on these instruments are made by Elkhart and thus have a completely different numbering system.Īny Trumpet or Cornet with the engraving of an ELK (see below) will NOT match up on the Buescher Serial number list. These are most likely mid to late 1960s instruments.ģ) Most (if not all) Buescher trumpets that have the "ELK" logo have a separate serial number listing. These obviously are NOT subject to this serial number chart. Selmer must have done a serial number "reset" at some point.Ģ) I have also noticed some of the 1960s "Side Scroller" and possibly "Top Scroller" logoed trumpets/cornets that have serial numbers in the 100,000 range. Most seem to have the "Upsidedown Nike" Bell Logo and are model BU-7. Some of the modern Buescher labeled trumpets from the 1970-present that have serial numbers that do not correspond to this chart. Please note that there are a FEW exceptions to this chart. so I have listed BOTH numbers, I think the number MORE accurate would be 326000. *1950 Serial number is different on various sites. About this time Selmer Purchased Buescher