Anniversary Model!

Kessler Custom 30th Anniversary Tenor Sax

Kessler Custom 30th Anniversary Tenor Sax

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Unlacquered, Raw Finish
Our 30th Anniversary horn uses an un-lacquered body & neck. The body tubing is made from Red Brass (85% Copper) and the neck from Nickel-Silver. The bare metal is exposed and will patina with time. The keys are lacquered and will maintain their polished look.

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Kessler Custom 30th Anniversary Tenor Sax
Limited Production | Raw, Un-Lacquered Body & Neck

Since our company was founded in 1989 by Chuck & Becky Kessler, we have always sought to provide our customers with the best service, quality and values in the music industry. Our Kessler Custom brand of instruments is the epitome of that concept and as we celebrate the 30th Anniversary of our company founding, we thought of no better way to celebrate this concept than with a new Kessler Custom 30th Anniversary Series of saxophones! This 30th Anniversary Tenor Sax is a limited production model with exceptional performance characteristics at an affordable price!

30th Anniversary Tenor Concept
Built on our “Handmade Series” platform, our 30th Anniversary Tenor Sax employs a modern take on the vintage French design concept. Using the same bore as our Handmade lineup, the 30th Anniversary Tenor Sax is offered in only one ultra responsive configuration: Un-Lacquered RedBrass Body with an Un-Lacqured Nickel-Silver neck. While being un-lacquered doesn’t really impact the “sound” of the horn as heard by the audience, it impacts directly the “feel” of the horn to the player! They will feel more vibrant and alive in the player’s hands.

Red Brass Body, Nickel-Silver Neck
We offer our Handmade Series in 2 options normally, one with the body tubing made all out of Red Brass (85% Copper) and the other made from Nickel-Silver. The Red Brass model gives a more focused, centered tonal core whereas the Nickel-Silver model gives a more lively, bigger sound with more edge. Both are stellar options but for our 30th Anniversary Tenor Sax, we wanted to combine elements of both.

By keeping the Red Brass body tubing (body, bow & bell), the horn maintains the thicker tonal core. The Nickel-Silver neck adds a little more grit to that core. Then when combined with the un-lacquered finish, the end result is a horn that posses a sweet core with excellent response and projection and one that feels like it wants to leap out of your hands with response! An absolutely killer combination!!

High End Poly-Carbonate Case
We wanted our Anniversary model to be special in every way, not just the horn. So we are offering the horn with the highest end GL Cases Poly-Carbonate “Combi” series case. This case sells for $489 on it’s own and offers a protective, light weight case that allows you to customize the storage capacity of the case. It uses a modular system that allows you to add or subtract the external storage of the case. So what better case to provide with this exceptional horn?!

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Additional Information

Bore	Professional French Style Bore
Body Material	Red Brass (85% Copper)
Neck Material	Nickel-Silver
Body Construction	Completely Handmade – Fully Ribbed Body Construction
Pads	Pisoni Pro with Metal Domed Resonators
Range	Low Bb to High F#
Finish	Un-Lacquered Body/Neck Tube, Lacquered Keys
Finger Touches	Cultured Black Pearls
Mouthpiece	Several professional mouthpiece options
Ligature	Rico H-Ligature in Gold Plate
Case	GL Cases Poly-Carbonate “Combi” Case

Professional Setup
Every horn we send out to a customer is not released from us unless it has been completely setup in our shop first. This is because the setup on the horn is of the utmost importance! Sometimes, a saxophone (regardless of who the manufacturer or the price point is) comes in needing 20 minutes of adjustments and then the very next one can require 2 hours! So if you were to get 5 of the same model right out of the box, they will all play different which leads people to believe that they are “good” or “bad” saxes… but the reality is that the one that was the best out of the 5 was likely the one that needed the least amount of work and on the flip side, the “bad” sax was the one that needed 2 hours worth of adjustments!

Once the same 5 saxophones are properly regulated and adjusted to perfection, they become near identical saxophones that even the pickiest of players would be challenged to pick a true “favorite” horn. However, since most stores do not or even can not perform this setup, the player never knows this and is simply relying on the luck of the draw. This is why we perform our setup (in our www.SaxophoneRepairs.com ProShop) on them before delivering your new sax to you. You trust us with your purchase and we want to make sure that you are rewarded by giving you your ideal saxophone setup flawlessly!

Handmade Series
Check out all of the options in our Handmade Series Professional Tenor Saxes!