Buescher USA Aristocrat Tenor Saxophone / 600863

In very good this tenor saxophone. Has some scratches and small dents but the instrument is playing amazing and it is looking for a new home to be loved and played.

Buescher is a legendary name in the world of vintage saxophones.

Buescher was founded by Ferdinand August “Gus” Buescher in 1893. Working at the Conn band instrument factory from 1876 until 1894 he built Conn’s first saxophone which was based on an early Adolph Sax model.

Eventually, in 1894 he quit the Conn factory and set up his own company called “Buescher Manufacturing Company” in Elkhart, Indiana. They became Conn’s main competitor with their trademark named band instruments “True Tone.”

Following a fire accident in 1903, the company was renamed “Buescher Band Instrument Company” highlighting their main focus.

In 1916 Mr Buescher sold the majority of his shares to six businessmen. One of these investors was Andrew Hubble Beardsley who later established Elkhart Band Instrument with Conn’s president Carl Dimond Greenleaf who served as secretary-treasurer in the new company.

Beardsley became president of the company in 1919, and Buescher remained vice-president and general manager until 1929 when he resigned from these positions and stayed at the company as a consultant engineer.

In 1926 Buescher Band Company was merged with Beardsley’s other company Elkhart Band Instrument Company (it is unsure which company bought the other).

Beardsley died in 1936 and the company dissolved, however, Buescher kept using the Elkhart brand for its line of student instruments until 1959.

The Buescher company kept producing high-end professional saxophones such as the “True Tone”, “New Aristocrat”, “Buescher Aristocrat” and the “400” until 1963 when the company was bought by “H&A Selmer Company” (known as Conn-Selmer from 2003).

The tenor saxophone was invented in Belgium around 1840 by Adolphe Sax, a Belgian instrument maker, flautist, and clarinetist. Sax's goal was to create an instrument that combined the best qualities of woodwinds and brass instruments, and fill a missing range in military bands. He drew inspiration from the clarinet, flute, oboe, and ophicleide, and experimented with the bass clarinet. Sax's father, Charles Sax, was also an instrument maker who taught Adolphe how to build instruments and encouraged him to experiment.

The French government granted Sax a patent for the saxophone family on June 22, 1846, which divided the instruments into two groups of seven, ranging from soprano to contrabass. The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized, single-reed aerophone that is pitched in the key of B♭, meaning that when a note is played, the actual pitch that sounds is a major ninth lower. 

The tenor saxophone is used in many contexts, including military and marching bands, concert bands, orchestras, jazz combos, and mixed saxophone ensembles. Players such as Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, and John Coltrane helped create the classic cool jazz sound of the 1930s, 1940s, and beyond, but the tenor saxophone is also used in pop, rock, funk, and classical music. 

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