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1952 Selmer SBA Tenor Sax – Overhauled & Original

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1952 Selmer SBA Tenor Sax
Original Lacquer – ProShop Overhauled

The Selmer SBA Tenor Sax (Super Balanced Action) is revered by many as one of the best tenor saxophones ever made. While much of this is a personal opinion, one cannot argue that the Selmer SBA Tenor is surely among the all time best with virtually every major professional tenor sax player throughout sax history performing on the Selmer SBA Tenor Sax. Made from 1946 through 1954, the Selmer SBA Tenor marked the first appearance from Selmer of the “modern” saxophone. The Selmer SBA Tenor offered the revolutionary off-set tonehole system – which is used by every manufacturer today – allowing for a more natural ergonomic hand position than had ever been achieved with the traditional “in-line” tonehole designs employed by every other maker.

Serial 49,084 – Matched Neck
This particular Selmer SBA Tenor is serial number 49,084 and is all original lacquer. The neck is the original, matched serial number neck and has never been damaged. The horn itself came to us in overall stellar condition still with the original pads (and resos) in place. This horn had only minimal scratching with a few spots on the back of the bell (photographed here). There appears to have had one of the D# key guard flanges re-soldered at some point (photographed here) but otherwise, the horn is in phenomenal condition.

ProShop Overhauled
This Selmer SBA Tenor has been ProShop Overhauled in our Official Selmer Paris ProShop. More details of the overhaul are listed below, but we did transfer the original metal resonators to the new pads in the overhaul.

Kessler & Sons Music

Official Selmer Paris Pro Shop

Kessler & Sons Music is one of a small number of Official Selmer Paris ProShops in the world. ProShops shops are hand selected based on the technical ability of the shop. We are certified to bring the most out of a Selmer Paris instrument.

ProShop Overhauled
This Selmer SBA Tenor has been completely overhauled using our “ProShop Overhaul” Service. This overhaul brings the horn to the highest level of mechanical stability and performance. In this overhaul, we seek to maintain the purity of the Selmer SBA Tenor Sax performance and combine it with the solidity and response of the finest manufactured saxophones of today. In brief, this job includes:

Complete Mechanical Refit
Diamond Tone Hole Leveling
Pisoni Pro Pads (original metal resonators were transferred)
1 Year Shop Warranty

Full details of this job can be found on our SaxophoneRepairs.com website by clicking here. This job takes over 20 hours to complete and runs $1,200+ to perform on to a Mark VI. This service has already been performed on this Selmer Mark VI Tenor Sax.

Trial & Return Policy
We know how personal buying a musical instrument can be. Players have an obvious concern with shipping a saxophone from out of state that you haven’t even had a chance to try. Combine that with the large ticket price of this horn and it’s obvious that many customers can become hesitant about pulling the trigger only to lose out to another buyer because they waited too long. Don’t let that be you!

With this amazing Selmer SBA Tenor Sax, we know how to pack it safely so that it arrives to you without issue. Once you receive it, you then have 3 days to evaluate the saxophone in the comfort of your own home to make sure that it is the perfect sax for you. To be blunt, if you get this horn, you are not going to send it back. Due to it’s condition and the ProShop Overhaul that we performed, we can guarantee that this is the BEST Selmer SBA Tenor Sax that you will have ever touched! However, if you are not 100% satisfied with it, you simply let us know within the 3 days and then send it back for a full refund under the terms of our policy (click here for the full policy).