amati kraslice tenor saxophone serial numbers

Pretty much all were pretty decent, felt fine, sounded ok (with the exception of the C clarinet which seemed to have severe intonation problems, like my Forte made by Amati, in fact they seemed exactly the same) but nothing exciting IMO. The ones I tried (bari, alto, tenor, sop clarinet, C clarinet, bass clarinet) didn't make me want to stay and try more. Just yesterday I came back from Musikmesse and I tried the Amatis again (in addition to too many other things ). I always find problems with both old and new ones. Some young students play realtively new Amati student models, both clarinets and saxophones. These are usually relatively older models. Some local players, including professional players, have Amati saxophones and really like them. The stock mouthpiece was always awful for the ones I saw but maybe just a coincidence. I worked on Amatis more than a few times, both saxophones and clarinets.

It reminded me of some of the complex keywork on a Leblanc horn, but without the quality.Īmati also makes the Keilwerth EX models, IIRC. It looked like someone had gotten plans from a YTS-52 and translated the measurements off by a couple MM, so some keys had to sit on flanges and such. I bought one several years ago, because it came with a hard-shell formed case I wanted (good case + free sax).

There seems to have been at least one or two models after the Amati Toneking models and before the Classic Super, but I've not been able to get pics: I've just heard of them.Ĭurrent Amati production is of instruments that have visual similarity to Yamaha horns, but aren't high quality. This was student-quality and wholly made by Amati. * Amati Classic Super, which was also stenciled as the King Lemaire. If we go by when Amati was created (1945-1948), this would be one of the very first horns from Amati. * An Amati 'A880' Alto, which has a Kohlert serial number. There are pics of full-on Keilwerth models in here, as well as 'Amati-assembled' horns with their own serial numbers.

The fun part about that is that some Amatis used full bodies - and sometimes keywork an/or model names, too - from Kohlert, Julius Keilwerth models and probably other manufacturers. Oh, I can tell you a lot about Amati saxophones.įirst, Amati was a 'nationalized' company that was made up of bits and pieces of other Czech (Markneukirchen) companies that were around pre-WWII.

Amati kraslice tenor saxophone serial numbers