F.E. Olds and Son Ambassador Alto Saxophone 1950s USA

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Here is a beautifully crafted, vintage F.E. Olds & Son Ambassador Alto Saxophone. This one is from the 1950s and completely serviced with new pads. It shows some finish wear but this is a quality instrument ready for decades more play. This sax comes directly from a professional, working musician. It includes a new mouthpiece, ligature and reeds. Comes in original hardcase.

Product Specs:

BRAND F.E. Olds & Son

INSTRUMENT Saxophone

SAX TYPE Alto

BODY MATERIAL Antique Brass

FINISH Lacquer

KEYS Nickle-Plated

SKILL LEVEL Beginner-Advanced

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN USA

The F. E. Olds Story of Tradition and Quality...

The Story of Olds instruments really begins in 1908 in California, with a trombone and a trombonist. F. E. Olds had long been interested in trying to improve his favorite instrument. He felt the slide and the bell could be improved immeasurably. With that improvement would come greater flexibility and better response a new richness and tonal quality. So, in his home workshop, he began the careful and tedious hand work that soon began turning out the finest trombones the world had ever seen - instruments that attracted world wide attention and established him as the superior trombone craftsman of his day.

The growing Olds company specialized only in trombones until the founder's son, R. B. Olds, joined his father. The younger Olds knew his father's genius should not be restricted to a single instrument, so soon thereafter, valve instruments bearing the illustrious Olds signature began to appear in the hands of the most famous artists of the day. As these artists began returning from California playing their remarkably superior instruments, the name Olds began to spread. And with fame came growth.

To the present day, the Olds company has continued pioneering and refining the entire range of band instruments, from which every player has benefited. Olds was first to draw its own slide tubing... first to use an exceptionaly strong, light, two-piece patented brace. first to use nickel silver tubing for slides.. first to use a fluted slide to reduce friction. Famous Olds firsts include free bracing, widely copied in Europe and America, and professional-type valve springing on student trumpets and cornets.

Today, Olds instruments are produced in the most modern manufacturing and research facilities. Every instrument is subjected to the most minute quality control inspection - to make sure that each is fully responsive to every musical requirement and fully worthy of the Olds signature.

Everyone remembers F.E. Olds as the Number 1 craftsman of quality band instruments in America. And now, after years of intense research and development, the exciting new Olds band instruments emerge engineered to

meet today's evermore challenging performance needs. These new 0lds instruments possess superb playing ease as well as an extraordinary built-in sturdiness to withstand the most rugged use.

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