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Take your son's sax to a sax technician. You should be able to find one with a query on the Sax On The Web forum forum.saxontheweb.net/forum.php
and let him evaluate the intonation on the sax. If it is sax with terrible intonation, you might think about trading up, but even if you do, intonation is going to be a problem, your son has to learn how to play it in tune. It just comes with the territory.

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That's very good advice. Even a technician who deals mostly in school instruments should be able to render an evaluation such that you know where you stand. And there's the possibility that the tech might just identify some rather simple and inexpensive problems that can be easily rectified, such as a few bad pads, key articulation adjustments, etc.

Don't sell this one short, I've seen many instances of people trading up to the brand new sax and not knowing that the one they traded in just needed a bit of maintenance work and may have been a better instrument to begin with, if not so new and shiny.

Of course, if Scott could identify the exact brand, model and vintage, that information is also rather critical as well.


--Mac

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