Trivia Archive

September 2001 Sax Trivia Contest

Prizes:

Vintage Selmer C or C* mouthpi ($ 0.00 value)
1999 Jan/Feb VERVE "New Releas ($ 0.00 value)
One box of Alexander Superial ($ 0.00 value)

Winner

Peter Wilson from Kirkland, WA US

Contest background

Since the invention of the saxophone by Adolphe Sax in 1846, many companies have jumped into the saxophone manufacturing game.

Contest Question

Place the following list of saxophones in order of age (oldest to youngest): Conn 10M serial number 288K Selmer Mark VI serial number 56K Conn-O-Sax Adolphe Sax (rue St. George St.) Heckel Heckelphone in C serial number 4850 Holton Rudy Weidol serial number 35K King Super 20 serial number 287K Selmer Balanced Action serial number 22K Adolphe Sax (16 rue Frochot) Super DynAction serial number 10K Early series Buffet (hint built before 1950) serial number 5300 SML serial number 21K Martin Handcraft sn 42K

Correct Answer

4,11,9,6,13,3,8,1,7,2,5,10,12

Where You Could Have Found The Answer

This month's questions could have been answered by going to any number of web sites. One site that would have been particularly helpful would have been saxgourmet.com and musictrader.com.

Thank you to everyone who entered our September contest. We had only 3 people who correctly answered this month's question.