Saxophone, TopTone TT25, Vintage Sax, Original Titanium Keys, Unique Pads & Tone
Perfect Christmas Gift - for your fave musician! Rare innovative Dutch TopTone TT25 Pro Vintage alto saxophone with titanium self-levelling pads and matt finish. Very few of these unique epic-sounding instruments exist on the market nowadays.
TopTone saxes play with a beautiful tone. Players report that their unique patented titanium self-levelling pads minimise squeak and warm the internal reverberations. More about structure, action and sound later.
It appears that the Top Tone Sax inventor, Rienk Smeding, was ahead of his time: nowadays only his valves, but not his saxophones, persist in production. See US patent 6265649 - Wind instrument. Rienk Smeding is regarded by some as a true genius: one of the few lateral thinking technology innovators of the saxophone, which has undergone only incremental change since its creation. There is online speculation as to why the saxophone business closed: margins too low, a lack of profit-focus due to too broad a diversity of models, inventor restlessness, intellectual property disputes, a conservative saxophone market, they all crop up in the debate. In any case, the number of existing saxophones out here is limited.This particular sax is regarded as the top of the range, with its titanium self-leveling valves and matt coating. But it is not being properly appreciated right now. It has barely been used, perhaps for 20-30 hours in total.
Today it seems a waste to leave it almost untouched, but they have all developed interests in other instruments. So I have had had it serviced in Manchester by saxophone expert, John Clark, who relished playing it as well. It is ready for a more appreciative and active musical home. Toptone Saxofoon - stamped with Serial Number 2518.
Includes padded case, as shown. Two paraphrased comments on TopTone now follow, from Reinders and Borges. Both are loosely translated from the Dutch, then paraphrased by me. He praises the TopTone valves as having'perfect seal' yet'full, brilliant timbre', making the saxophone talk of a'light, smooth yet direct touch' and a'uniform register change'.
He deplores what he says is conservatism in the music industry, for not fully appreciating them. Toptone pads are suspended loosely, so they can tilt slightly, a new way to close the holes. The contact surface of the pad with the edge of the sound hole is made of soft rubber. The rest of the surface is largely a hard resonance plate. When playing, people notice the uniform action of the Toptone sax.All the valves are said to close easily and with equal pressure. So your fingers quickly get used to the fact that only minimal effort is required to get a sound hole closed. The sound of closing holes is also much less, with an unusual evenness in the finger action, which allows for rapid, yet very, precise noodles and trills.
While it is as seriously loud as any saxophone can be, the TopTone's timbre is generally regarded as subtly softer. Depending on your experience the upper harmonics are either: "muffled and dim" or "mellow and less shrill". Those who have noodled on it say that it offers a different form of edginess. So the Toptone sax not only has a uniform action, but also sounds balanced. Arguably this downside is that it might loses a bit of the specific squeaky edginess of certain notes, that wicked saxophonic fierceness, penetration and brillance has become now more rounded, warm and, crucially, controllable. Contact me if you want to come to try to play it. Bring your own mouthpiece or reed, please. Ways to write "saxophone" in foreign languages include.Saksofon saxofoia saxòfon saxofon saxofoon szakszofon Saxófón sacsafón sassofono saxofonas saxofone saxofón sacsoffon chitoliro saksafoni saksopon saksafon. The item "Saxophone, TopTone TT25, Vintage Sax, Original Titanium Keys, Unique Pads & Tone" is in sale since Monday, October 22, 2018. This item is in the category "Musical Instruments\Wind & Woodwind\Band & Orchestral\Saxophones". The seller is "barrjohnsto_7" and is located in Chester. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Brand: TopTone
- Modified Item: No
- Country/Region of Manufacture: Netherlands
- Type: Alto
- Body Finish: Matt-satin clear laquer
- Non-Domestic Product: No
- MPN: Serial Number: 2518
- Body Material: Brass / Titanium / Elastomer
- Custom Bundle: No
- Key Finish: Mother of Pearl
- Bearings: Delrin
- Key pads: Titanium self-levelling centric
- Model: TT25 Pro Vintage