Martin Imperial Tenor Sax
S/N 3003xx (stock #1020)
The pictures are below
New pads and corks…ready to go.
This is your chance to own a classic American tenor at a reasonable price. SOLD to a local guy (Baraboo) August 2006
Engraving says:
THE MARTIN
Original lacquer Saxophone
Status –
General info about Later Martin Imperial
Problems –
Return Policy – If you find this horn to be materially different from the description above, I will gladly refund the sale price of the horn. You will have to repack it and pay for the shipping back to me, but I will promptly reimburse you the final auction price of the horn (including shipping cost to you).
Picture one - Foot of keyguard looks worse here than it really is.. Picture two - To get a good picture of engraving, the scratches were also enhanced. Picture three - See...scratches de-empnasized here, but brass color is too light. Picture four - Good color, de-emphasized scratches, but looks like ripples in bell lip. Not true...reflection of overhead banks of fluorescent lights.. Picture five - The whole ball of wax. Picture six - Flipside. See the strap ring scratches. Picture seven - Dentwork in bow, looking worse than it does in person. Picture eight - Close bow picture. Picture nine - 'nother bow picture Picture ten - Pinkie key cluster, neck & case. Picture eleven - Case emblem again. Picture twelve - Neck, stack, palm keys Picture thirteen - Sax, neck & case.
Only $525
(Did you know a repad alone can go for $400 or more?)
He also owns a Dolnet alto that he let me work on.
IMPERIAL
ELKHART, INDIANA
USA
- All new Feree’s rivet pads treated with Saxgourmet “no stick” spray.
- All new corks and felts…except for the neck cork which was fine. I didn’t want to replace it just for the sake of saying it has all new corks.
- Adjusted and regulated
- Good, original lacquer…some speckling…wear marks around strap hook and back of sax where it rubs again clothes.
- Still…a very pretty sax – very solid with characteristic Martin soldered-in beveled toneholes. A lot more solid than most cheap imports.
- Made in the USA
- Assumedly original case (with Martin emblem). Emblem is bent, as though one edge caught on a shelf or something. Faux crocodile print. Poor cosmetic shape, but solid enough.
- Very smooth positive key action.
- Neck plug is white plastic with an “M” on it. May be original Martin neck plug?
This is NOT the Martin Handcraft Imperial made in the 1930’s, but rather a later Imperial made in the ‘60’s
- Dent between #2 keyhole and octave pip…it has been pushed out, but consequently a bump below it now.
- Rollers on #18 & #19 don’t roll
- Feet of the Low C (19) Keyguard were pushed in, but have been pushed back out approx. 90% of the way. I would have had to unsolder the bell from the sax to get it the rest of the way.
- Other small dents/ripples elsewhere, mainly in bow and bell…all superficial
Edge of case emblem is bent.
