Buffet S1 Alto Saxophone

Rare and beautiful Buffet S1 Alto. The sweetest tone in any Alto. This is a top professional instrument from the 80s. Just serviced. They are great horns with very sophisticated mechanics and beautiful sound. Comes in a unique case which also has room for a Clarinet or Soprano.

The thumb rest and the arrangement for the C-Eb are very sophisticated indeed ( in most versions that is, there are also versions with simpler mechanics) perhaps even too sophisticated.

The rest of the horn was made to rival with Selmer and it should have had way more succes that it ever did.

The mechanics of the S1 are vastly superior to the early SDA but some SDA, are, in fact, S1! There are so called transitional models which are S1 in everything but have the ( I have always found it rather naive) engraving on the body saying Super dynaction.

Many say that Buffet, in general, has a classical sound, whatever that means. If this is, I agree, true of the Prestige it is certainly not the case for other S1. This S1 is equal to any mk 6. TRADES CONSIDERED.