![]() He did not go the easy way to make soulless which does not inherit anything. Guardala did a great thing saving essentially the old B&S Weltklang group of small workbench studios making handmade instruments. Now we are making sweatshop copies of the MK6 on the CNC machine by computer and unskilled child laborers and you wonder why a Selmer MK6 can't be reproduced? It is not all in measurement of the bore and neck angle to get a MK6, I think everyone knows it by now. Once the craftsman (Buffet etc.) in the old workshps have been laid off, sent into retirement, they will not train a new generation of craftsmen. Yamaha and Yanagisamwa make a real decent horn technically but again, no innovation to the saxophone there, just improving the process like Toyota did in the 80s. ![]() Not to mention resale value of a crappy instrument. The result is a LOSS permanently in capabilities to craft and innovate, take further musical instruments which have been developed in the western world over hundreds of years. I think it's a shame to buy overpriced horns from either Taiwan or China and support companies trying to sqeeze short term proifits out of uneducated buyers/students.
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