Well, today I said fond farewell to two more of my rapidly dwindling stack of C Melody saxophones – one has gone to Devon, and t’other to the South of France.  I wish them well in their new homes, and I’m sure we’ll be following the progress of at least one of them on this blog, as the new owners breathe life into them…

As they patiently sat on the bench waiting for the courier(s) to collect them, I took a picture of the two well packed beauties – and in the middle (by comparison) is what can only be called a ‘cardboard sleeve’ which was all the packaging that one of my saxes came from the US in !  It didn’t even cover the case completely – the ends stuck out – and the sax  and bits inside had no more protection than would be used hand-carrying it to a gig…  But the sax miraculously survived, and it played right out of the case – maybe more than it did when it went into the case ???

I’ll dearly miss one of them, it was the lacquered King C Melody – I’d been promising myself that I’d get it up to scratch and see if it could give my 30’s Martin a run for it’s money.  Never happened.  I’ve finally realised that there is only a finite amount of time, and too many demands on that.  Sigh…

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