If I had I might have been more tempted to keep it. Looking at the pictures now I realise that I completely failed to see that this horn had a solid silver bell and neck – like a King Silversonic. While pitch is possible to adjust for stringed instruments, it can’t be changed for brass and saxophones, where the length of the tube dictates the frequency of the notes.
Many instrument manufacturers from the nineteenth onwards made high and low pitched instruments. For those of you who don’t know, concert pitch was not always the standard 440Hz in is today. Although I collect saxophones, I’m really not interested in them if they’re unplayable with other musicians, which is true of all ‘high C’ instruments. I never took much interest in the instrument when it arrived, because it was immediately evidently that it was a ‘high C’ and unplayable in tune. I saw this in an eBay auction and put a bid on it. Hawkes and Son made saxophones in their factory in Edgeware near London. A Couple of years ago I was looking to add a good English saxophone to my collection.
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