![]() ![]() ![]() It's the " wait until the seller is sweating bullets and drops the price four times before you show even a glimmer of interest" method where you then make them an offer even lower. I always hated selling on SOTW because of the MO of buyers there. I applaud you heartily because some of them fully deserved it. playing that trick on those poor SOTWers to flush out the ignorant and the snakes in the grass. And it DID sell.a couple weeks later, for the $200.Ĭlick to expand.Oh, you sneaky Devil you. I of course spilled the beans after a few more messages. People of course, did no such thing.so I got like 6 PM's in the first two hours.to which I replied "OK, man.just wanna make sure you'd be happy with this horn, y'know ?".then directed them to view the photos one more time.ģ dropped out.but there were still 3 (rather un-astute) individuals who were certain they were gonna 'rob' me of a serviced Tenor so they could resell it at $600, so wanted to close the deal FAST.LOL. Then in the description I noted "before you PM me wanting to buy, look at the photos carefully, thanks" I had some evil fun with this when when I sold it on SOTW.I entitled the ad "unique Italian Tenor c. Here's one I refurbed around 8 years ago.I HAD purchased it intentionally, just out of curiousity. Something even weirder.the Itralian-made "Ministeriale" horns which were made well into the 1960's or perhaps even 1970's (these were produced specifically for military/civic law enforcement bands where it was unlikely players would ever pursue music as any sort of career, so the horns were supplied with pared-down keywork) a member here recently inadvertently got stuc-, oops, I mean, 'purchased one'. Remember, Bis touch came later in the sax evolution of was an add-on to the earlier versions of the instrument. Truly not something most online buyers would ever see.and certainly NOT something a non-player would notice if they were selling one. So, yeah second and third-line horn models of that time period sometimes have no bis touch. If you websearch images of Cavalier saxes, you can find the absence fairly regularly. If you come across Cavalier horns (Conns old 'third line' models, one shelf down from the Pan Ams).be careful, because they seem to be rebranded PanAms but in fact a lot do NOT have the Bis touch. Supertone band Master Elkhart-ind alto saxophone | eBay Beautiful satin silver vintage sax with new-looking resonator pads.Of course being a stencil it doesn't have rolled toneholes but that's why it's a stencil and is so cheap. I would have to use the Bb side key or the 1-1 or 1-2 fingerings all of which I long ago stopped using most of the time in favor of rolling on and off the bis key. I cringe to think of how I would play Bb without the bis. The first Martin I had was a Wurlitzer stencil alto, but after that I just stuck with the real deal. In all my years of looking at vintage saxes I had never seen or heard of such a thing but maybe because I never looked at stencils very much. It's a Conn stencil and from what I just read on Sax On The Egotrip, it wasn't that out of the ordinary back then. I just found this sax perusing eBay Netherlands and found this silver Supertone Band Master sax that not only doesn't have a front F but is minus a Bb bis too. ![]()
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