Second is an Evette Alto. No model, there wasn't one. B&H appear to have created this as part of their amalgamation of many makers to capitalis on the old Evette Schaeffer name, but apart from words there appears to be no real link. Free Download Gantz 2010 here. These saxes appear to have been made by more than one maker (not all. Feb 27, 2013 If anyone wants to know the years their saxophones were mad please give me your serial numbers and user names and I. Stranglehold Torrent Iso Game. Find best value and selection for your evette schaeffer alto saxophone search on eBay. World's leading marketplace. If anyone wants to know the years their saxophones were mad please give me your serial numbers and user names and I can let you know when I get them in order.

I have bought an old soprano sax on a whim on eBay, and I wonder if anyone can tell me anything about it - for example who made it and how old it is. It is shiny silver plated and keyed up to Eb. The key tops are plain metal - no pearls. Soldered tone holes.

Ribbed key construction. Lafleur and Son Ltd, 147 Wardour Street London W1, Serial number 2496.

I'm guessing it is from the 1920's. The case (which may not be original) is marked Hawkes & Son, Denmon Street, London The sax is in poor condition, but it sounds surprisingly good. More pictures here. Hi Nigel See below, an extract (straight copy and paste, so the first person references are to the author, not me) from a post from a clarinet site. It gives some interesting information, but no answers as to who actually made your soprano! (Joseph Rene) LaFleur (1812-74) was a much-respected violin bow maker in Paris who established a partnership with Jules Prudence Riviere of London, and in 1857 they published a band-related journal, 'Alliance Musicale,' under the short-lived 'Reviere and LaFleur.' Reviere then went into business with William Hawkes (of B & H) in 1876, at 28, Leicester Square, until 1889, when son Oliver Hawkes came into the business.

LaFleur and Son operated at 15, Green Street, Leicester Square (now Irving Street) from 1862-1911, but I suspect it was primarily the son, borrowing his father's good name. LaFleur, of course, did not make instruments but only imported them, certainly from France and Belgium. He also published sheet music. I am not sure that Couesenon was their clarinet supplier - have not found evidence to support this, and my clarinet has M.T. In a diamond under the upper- and lowermost keys, possibly Martin-Thibouville.

I can establish that LaFleur imported clarinets by Albert of Brussels and Martin Freres of Paris. In 1917, LaFleur and Sons was associated with a different address a short distance away at 147, Wardour Street in the name of Oliver Hawkes. Erroll Garner Transcriptions Pdf To Excel. My assumption is that the LaFleur son died and the business was sold to Boosey & Hawkes in or before 1917, and B & H had exclusive rights to use (and did use) the LaFleur name perhaps as late as 1940.' Regarding the Hawkes / Boosey merger: From The merger of Boosey & Co. Operations with those of Hawkes & Son took place relatively quickly once the new company had been created in 1930.

Hawkes & Son had in 1924-25 built the spacious factory at Deansbrook Road, Edgware, which could accommodate the combined manufacturing operation. The former Boosey manufacturing production was transferred from Frederick Mews, Stanhope Place, Marble Arch, to Edgware in the period 1931-32, which continued as the main Boosey & Hawkes plant until 2001. Management and sales were concentrated at the former headquarters and saleroom of Boosey & Co.

At 295 Regent Street, although the Hawkes premises in Denman Street continued as repair shop for some time.3 The Hawkes & Son sequences of serial numbers were discontinued, the Boosey & Co sequence for brass instruments was continued, and indeed is still being used.4 Demand for existing successful models (of mouthpieces as well as instruments) from both firms continued to be satisfied for some time, a consolidated range of models, mostly based on Boosey & Co. Designs, being established in the 1930s (see Appendix A). On 1 January 1933 the remaining unfinished Hawkes & Son instruments were given Boosey & Hawkes serial numbers.5 Finally, on 5 January 1943 the last nineteen items of old Hawkes & Son stock were renumbered.

Hi all, as some will know I have recently started playing an keilwerth Alto which I have had buried for several years. I have however always fancied a tenor (long story).

I have just been offered an Evette Buffet Crampon Tenor, which is s/h. The person selling it is desperate for money, and the owner of the shop who is selling it on her behalf is reasonably well known to me. The price is £190. It appears (and sounds) to be in good condition (it's a few years old and has a few scratches, but nothing of sigificance). Do you think it's worth getting at that price? Are they reasonable horns? - it doesn't have to be Pro quality just reasonably good enough to produce good sound (haha, not with me playing it!).