Man i would love to get my hands on that. I used to work for a music shop thats been around over 60 years. I wonder if the old man ever heard of a F bari

Very interesting saxophone indeed! To me it sounds like a mix between a tenor and a baritone much like how a c melody sounds like a alto and tenor put together

I have one of these and played it on 28 Jul 79 at the 6th World Saxophone Congress with a quartet of F and C saxophones. Saxophone Symposium reported this performance in the Summer '79 issue.

I've heard an opinion that this is a very high-pitch Bari in Eb (a lot of French instruments were practically a half-step sharp), but the modern mouthpiece on the vintage instrument causes the pitch to become even higher. And honestly, I'm pretty sold on that. I wonder what it'd sound like with the period mouthpiece, though

Fascinating baritone and interesting theories. Based on the design, range and construction, perhaps the serial number is screwy and the instrument actually is from the late 1800s. Or they assembled an ancient horn that had been made but not put together. Also, no testing of the pitch is valid unless one uses a mouthpiece with a chamber size designed for the instrument. A modern, smaller chamber size fundamentally skewers all the acoustics and one compensates by placement of mouthpiece, extreme voicing and other finagling. And so many leaks will also distort pitch all over. There are plenty of baritone mouthpieces available, some modern, some vintage, that will have a chamber size that will allow for a valid test. One does have to get used to the way of "blowing" a large chambered mouthpiece; it is different.

Wow, that's exciting. Can't wait to hear you play it some more when it gets new pads.

Yeah Andrew! This is going to be so cool once you get it repadded! And you sound amazing on it the way it is!

That is one cool horn.

Why does it sound like a tenor?!? It sounds so good

Great fun! I have a conn high pitch baritone that I tinker with every Christmas holidays - it’s not really justifiable to spend the money on getting it fixed properly but it almost/mostly plays in terms of the keys working, pads closing etc - the main issue is the modern mouthpiece being totally wrong for it

This is an interesting video with a unique sax, but at 3:03 is that a tote bag made to look like a Vandoren box of reeds? That might be the coolest tote bag ever.

sounds like tenor

Where did you get that?