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CMelodyMan · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 11:52 pm Post subject: Low A alto

I've only heard of a low A alto once, and they seem pretty cool. When were they made? Have any of you played one before?

tenorsaxman · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 52 Location: Indiana

It sounds pointless to have a low A, but looks cool. If I had one I'd use it. Anyways, Ornette Coleman ordered Grafotn saxes once a year for so many years and in 1994 he had a white enamelled Selmer alto sax that descended to low A.
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CMelodyMan · Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:04 pm Post subject:

That's pretty awesome. I want to see a pic of that!

Bariman · Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 12:05 am Post subject:

Selmer did indeed make a few of these, yet they had a very false tone toward the lower end, especially the low B, Bb, etc.

Check out Saxpics.com for more info on the selmers.

Low a alto's pop up on eBay from time to time too.

Bariman

Bleeding_Gums_Murphy · Joined: 04 Jul 2005 Posts: 75

Yeah, some guy was trying to sell a low a and high f# mark vi alto for a million bucks on eBay in february or march Shocked

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CMelodyMan · Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 2:49 pm Post subject:

Yeah, that's the one that I saw.
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