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>From: Rhysonsax@aol.com
>To: saxpics@gmail.com
>Subject: Congratulations & Info on Keilwerth Stencils for Buffet Crampon
>Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 16:28:19 EDT
>
>Pete,
>
>You're doing a great job with the site and I visit it often.  My sax
>collection includes Selmer, Conn, Buescher and a Grafton.  I also recently
>bid for a newish Buffet Crampon Alto on Ebay in the UK and rather to my
>surprise, I won it.  I'd already checked Buffet as a brand, but their 
>photos
>didn't look like what I was buying.
>
>Anyway, when it arrived, it turned out to be almost identical to a 
>Keilwerth.
>  The serial number of  95,903 doesn't make any sense as a Buffet, but 
>dates
>it to 1990 if it is a Keilwerth number.  IIt's got the big bell and
>adjustable palm keys of a Keilwerth, but the engraving is clearly Buffet
>Crampon of Paris, the bell brace is lettered "BC" and it has the
same on 
>the
>octave key.
>
>I suppose that Keilwerth must have made some stencil horns for Buffet in
>1990, which was just after they joined Buffet in the Boosey & Hawkes 
>company
>(1989 I think).  I don't know what has happened to Buffet saxes since then,
>as I don't know any shops in the UK that sell them, although the S3 
>Prestige
>is on the Boosey web site.
>
>It's a good horn, but not quite what I thought I was buying !!  It doesn't
>have tone hole edge rings and the G#  key doesn't have a pearl touchpiece.
>Maybe it's a SX90 - I don't know.
>
>Anyway, here are six sax pics from Ebay which just about show the features 
>of
>the sax I bought.  The copyright is probably with the seller, but if it 
>would
>be useful to you I could take some more photos.
>
>Best Regards
>
>Rhys David, UK