“Professional in everything but price, this tenor designed for the student has many of the top improvements of the higher priced saxophones. It comes at a very long line of fantastic saxophone manufacturing in the most important town in the world for horn production. It was made in 1963 in Elkhard Indianna, before production moved to Nogales, New Mexico. Officially it is a student model, lacking the rolled tone holes and micro tuner of their top-line models of the time. ![]() This was named the Director by Conn, although it is more commonly known as a Shooting Stars model. Having bought it, I got a real compliment, ‘I’ve often heard buyers play the saxophone, you’re the first one who proved it’. Having asked the store-keeper to wash the dirty reed under water I played the instrument, which had a loud, clear tone. This was on a high shelf behind the counter, long forgotten I would imagine. ![]() I was escaped from a Sun analyst conference for an hour with my friend Peter. Suffering from a long-term buyer regret, I saw this in a pawn broker shop in San Jose in 2001. Eventually I traded it in for the Keilwerth SX90R reviewed on this site. Once I had enough money I bought a Conn 16M – but not this one. I was originally just an alto player, but always been interested in tenors.
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