The Andreas van Zoelen collection
I bought this instrument at an auction. The auction house had set up an online stream, where, with a thumbnail size video and mediocre audion quality, you could follow the auctioneer. To make things more challenging, I was on the road when this saxophone came up. I parked my car on a parking space along the German freeway, put my headphones on and prayed that I got the numbers in French right. It all worked out quite nicely, and I enjoy playing this Sax tenor very much, after it was restored by Nico Bodewes in Amsterdam.
This is the tenor that I X-rayed in light of my doctoral research:
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