Beuscher tenor saxophone9/23/2023 ![]() ![]() I can't really explain it, but the thing is really weird and my left pinky begins to hurt if I ever use it extensively (which, fortunately, I don't ever really have to unless I'm just messing around). If there's any problem with the horn, it's the left hand pinky spatula. I can't do any altissimo so I can't speak for the intonation in that range, but I will say that the fingerable notes are wonderful. Every note is either dead-on in tune or extremely close to it, and that's without any special effort on my part and the horn in somewhat bad disrepair (it's been half a year and I still haven't taken it to a tech). ![]() This is especially handy since I am practically tone-deaf. I will say with certainty, however, that after playing on it for a while, I've gotten great intonation on this horn. I am not a very discriminating player, so maybe the tone quality is crap and I just don't know it. Despite the fact that many of the pads are hard as rock and I had to duct tape some metal doo-hickey to the neck after the soldering broke off, the horn sounds pretty good and the intonation is superb. I bought this sax-a post-Selmer Buescher 400-for $500 and have been very happy with it. The school tenor sax I used to play on sucked majorly, as did the mouthpiece, so I jumped at the chance when one of my friends told me his dad was selling a tenor sax. I'm a somewhat decent high school tenor player.
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