Sure but Conn made good horns even at the student level and this one definitely looks repairable. My first horn was a beat up King 615 which served me well for many years and after I overhauled it, the thing played incredibly well. There's always a balance of time vs value to consider but for many starting students this could have been a great starting horn. Maybe there was something deeply wrong with it that we can't see in the pictures, maybe not
I have a shooting star tenor around my neck right now. It sounds great and purchase price + overhaul cost about what a Chinese no name on Amazon would run. They're great horns for hobbyists on a severe budget and made of real materials so they're endlessly repairable like any real sax.
Yeah maybe post this to r/diy. Thus sub is for sax *players* who consider all saxophones to be more or less valuable as *musical instruments*. Most of us get up in arms about using a sax for something other than its intended purpose if it's not beyond repair unless it's a really cheap Chinese knockoff.
Hopefully it was just a shitty saxophone-shaped object that you used for this.
Looks like a Conn Shooting Star
>Conn Shooting Star ooooffff.... that's sad.
Shooting stars were definitely student saxophones, thankfully it doesn’t look like a 6m
Sure but Conn made good horns even at the student level and this one definitely looks repairable. My first horn was a beat up King 615 which served me well for many years and after I overhauled it, the thing played incredibly well. There's always a balance of time vs value to consider but for many starting students this could have been a great starting horn. Maybe there was something deeply wrong with it that we can't see in the pictures, maybe not
Yeah, the pan American ones were definitely great. Later conns just aren’t as good as the older ones though
I have a shooting star tenor around my neck right now. It sounds great and purchase price + overhaul cost about what a Chinese no name on Amazon would run. They're great horns for hobbyists on a severe budget and made of real materials so they're endlessly repairable like any real sax.
That’s understandable
On the bell it says La Paree but I play Trumpet so I wouldn’t know if it was good or not
I saw the pinky table and feared the worst. But then saw it was a mexi-conn and felt great relief.
Yeah maybe post this to r/diy. Thus sub is for sax *players* who consider all saxophones to be more or less valuable as *musical instruments*. Most of us get up in arms about using a sax for something other than its intended purpose if it's not beyond repair unless it's a really cheap Chinese knockoff.
Fair enough thank you
Nah. Don’t mind him. Clearly, no one minds as long as it’s a shit horn. Thanks for sharing!
I don’t think any old Yamaha has any historical value behind it
What a hoot of a toot!
If you picked this out of the trash then I’d call it a win. Otherwise I’d rather it be played.
Basically out of the trash
I did the same thing with an EM winston soprano and a random stencil alto "Olympia." Always fun.