Apr 22, 2014  A beautiful saxophone that is considered to be, by Rampone & Cazzani themselves, one of the pinnacles of their manufacture at the time these were made. The Solista were made in the golden era of the R&C prior their first serious crisis in 1957. Serial numbers can be used to identify supposedly “better” instruments. It is sometimes (possible erroneously) supposed that five digit MKVIs are the best. Or you want to play a horn with a number that is close to your idol’s saxophone.

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Cazzani, Ditte Riunite circular logo, serial number 4xxx (haven’t been able to determine the year it was built yet). No front high F, a “nail file” G#, and the rest of the left hand pinky keys inline.

The offices are run by two or three people. They are the only source of information about the R&C serial number. I don’t know what, knowing the exact year of production, would add to have tried the saxophone and found it good. But I suppose that you must have your reasons.

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It was knocked quite considerably out of line to the point where the left hand stack wasn’t even really moving before I stripped it down. Through gentle bending I was able to bring it back into the right position. Along with the post getting bent, the rod that went through the whole left hand stack was no longer straight.

I've had 4 Borgs and now a R&C and there just huge dark beasts. Yea more Conn like for sure. Just saw this by chance, I don’t recall having been asked to comment either in a mail or PM. I am afraid, Kevin, that your proposition is incorrect, this is a proper Rampone e Cazzani, certainly not a saxophone made before the company existed as such ( “ Ditte riunite' means unified, rather than what one would think, re-unified, and the unification, by way of marriage, is ancient, 1910 to be precise.long before this horn was made!

It was only when I went to remove the pads and clean the cups that I understood what was going on, and meant that I would have to remove the rivet and resonator from the new pad to install them. Straightening the rod The next problem to tackle was the bent post on the left hand G key.

I agree, it isn’t cheap! The restoration of a horn like these cannot be undertaken by any technician and needs to use respectful materials like white pads (you don’t want to ruin this with brown or black pads!). Also, these horns were made for pads that no longer exist and probably need custom made pads to fit the special needs in therms of thickness rather than off the shelf products. Addendum As I thought, the pads of this horn appear to have the type of flute pad construction seen on a certain amount of old saxophones. As you can observe the pads appears to have a metal flat resonator with a screw on it, much in the way flute pads are still made.

Selmer SBA Alto What Can Serial Numbers Tell Me? The main thing you learn from serial numbers is the age of the instrument of course. Although the dates in these charts are reasonably accurate, there may be some discrepancies for various reasons. Here are a few things to bear in mind: • Sometimes a company may hold back a batch of instruments and then release them a couple of years later. • The production of old and new models can overlap, or in some cases features of a new model appear on the later batch of the previous model. This can lead to what we call transitional models, which have some new and some old features. A famous example would be the early 30s Conn instruments.

These are relatively rare “ Solista” models. A beautiful saxophone that is considered to be, by Rampone & Cazzani themselves, one of the pinnacles of their manufacture at the time these were made. The Solista were made in the golden era of the R&C prior their first serious crisis in 1957. So the saxophone was probably manufactured in the late 20 or the early ’40. At Rampone they would be able to be more precise but only about the decade and won’t be able to exactly pinpoint the year. The value of the horn is certainly in the eye of the beholder there isn’t a “ market” price as such.

After drilling out the middle and applying glue I got it into place, and then had to sand it down to fit a mouthpiece on. And used it for the mouthpiece cork Of the 6 original rollers, most were cracked, broken, or just didn’t move. I unscrewed the ones that I could, but some needed to be cut off with a razorblade. I ordered new custom ones from, and rather than the original brownish-red color decided to go with the Taos color, which I think looks quite nice against the silver horn. Although I had them cut to size for me, they rolled, but some not all the way around. I used my diamond file again to open up the space by fractions of a millimeter so that they all rolled freely.

Some R1 Jazz don’t take kindly to the passing of time and despite the fact that they might have been played very little, still the metal might look less than sparkly. In fact this has been the case even with some new, never used ones in some of the many finishes in which they, these days, come. I have seen it personally. In that case the shop might ( but I couldn’t say) have purchased it as a “ second” for just a little less than normal. Anyway, the seller should be able to produce some title of purchase showing that it was indeed bought no long ago.

Like Borgani who brought out there Jubilee horns Rampone there R1 range. These are there best horns. The Ponzol and deluxe borgs are also nice. Anything other than these modern horns by them are not there best but hey I bet theres still some cracking older models for sure.

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Now they will be back home and after a little rest they will be able to process all the mail which arrived BECAUSE of the commercial contacts which they had at the fair. Sometime down the line, I suppose they will have time to answer you urgent query. The company is family run and there are less than 10 people altogether working there.

It was blocking the pad immediately above it from opening, so had to be adjusted. There’s no neckstrap hook, but a place on the back where it looks like one may have been at one point but became unsoldered and come (or taken) off. There are some small dings in the body, but nothing major. Repairing that is beyond my humble abilities, so I’ve left them. The things I needed to do to overhaul the instrument were: • Clean body and keys • Replace all pads • Replace mouthpiece cork • Replace various other bumper corks and felts • Fix bent key and bent rod • Level some toneholes • Replace rollers • Get a case.

This should (fingers crossed) come up fine. If it is called FISM ( Fabbrica Italiana Strumenti Musicali) this a designation that Rampone & Cazzani used in the ’70 certainly NOT 2016! Your horn is absolutely not a modern one but rather like the “ De Luxe' I sold to Jazz is all. Yes, but that sax was cosmetically quite original looking and had practically no degradation of the finish. I recall that we tried to find out the exact date of manufacture from Claudio but never got a response. Then again my memory for details of stuff like that is not so great anymore so maybe that never happened except in my mind.