1953 50,xxx Selmer Super Balanced Action Tenor Saxophone, Just Serviced, Video

1953 50,xxx Selmer Super Balanced Action Tenor Saxophone, Just Serviced, Video1953 Selmer Super Balanced Action tenor saxophone, s n 50015. Here's a late SBA that delivers a ton of punch and power wrapped around a dark velvety core. The previous owner acquired the sax from Tenor Madness and the pads are still in excellent condition. The sax has metal domed rivetless resonators and they look a lot like what the sax originally would have had installed. My repairman just serviced the sax, so the pads are sealing and the horn plays

wide open alto saxophone mouthpiece that measures

replacing two pads and the neck cork

Mark VI altos are appreciated for their bright

which means that it's around 10 years old

Extremely high build quality

responds easily

The mouthpiece has never been refaced

1953 Selmer Super Balanced Action SBA alto saxophone

The neck is original to the horn

Selmer eventually returned to the medium bow nearly a decade later

and is sealing from top to bottom

There is a directness to the sound and response that I do not think is possible in quite the same way with the Series III