Since the beginning I had gathered all the data I collected on Excel spread sheets. B&S “blue label” saxes: serials and features presented in tables I will post an update to this article when I have it completed. 2Īll of these peculiarities will be explored in detail when I finish with the rest of my research, and update the B&S pages of my site. Furthermore, instruments that were still in stock, were updated with the new bells and bows, but their serial numbers were kept original. I have recorded tenor # 2376 twice, but they are different horns. (No word on what happened with the baritones.)Īpparently, this is why some serial numbers are duplicated-e.g. 1 Additionally, serial numbers on the alto and tenor were restarted at 10 respectively.

It turns out that B&S changed the B&S “blue label” horns in 1985, and gave them them new bells and bows. This led me to speculate if we had a step-up grade of “blue label” horn-although nothing in the published materials indicated that was the case. Since I began tracking serial numbers and features of B&S saxophones, I noticed we had quite different features on horns very close in serial number. Something I noticed from the beginning of data gathering Some of the most interesting information that has recently been published in German sources about these “blue label” horns, involves the number of different models, as well as the evolution of these models. Through the painstaking work of people at the Musikinstrumenten-Museums Markneukirchen, and through my colleague, Uwe Ladwig, all kids of data regarding the pre-unification horns has come to light. That’s crazy! Therefore, it is not surprising that over the past few years more information has become available, and it is time to update my B&S pages on my website.

It is hard to believe that I have been gathering data on B&S “blue label” saxophones for nearly a decade.

This appears to be one of the modified horns with the new bell and bow. Bell to body support brace of blue label alto # 2057.

Vito sax serial numbers