Conn 10M Tenor 271xxx

Description

This is a nice original lacquer Conn 10M tenor SN 271xxx. The original lacquer is about 95%, and the horn looks great with no dents or dings. It looks like a few small dings were removed from the back of the bow, and probably a small one from the side of the neck. These are minor issues and everything looks great now.

I need to add a more detailed tonal description, but this horn has a fresh overhaul by Matt Stohrer and is yet another stand out 10M. How can there be 3 stand-out 10M’s on the site at once, you may ask? I do try hard to avoid exaggeration and “adjective inflation” on the site, where every single horn has to be the best horn I’ve ever played and a killer and a monster etc etc ad nauseum. At the same time, I am extremely picky both about buying only the best horns, and about using only the very best saxophone techs. The result is that there is an unusual number of truly top-quality horns on this site. People love 10M’s because they have a big, warm, complex, dense tone but they also have more focus and delicacy than the earlier Conn tenors. Ergonomically, the design is actually very good, and the keywork is nice and fast, though it is a different design from Yamaha/Selmer and takes a period of adjustment to get back up to speed on if you’re used to burning fast bebop passages. But you can certainly play fast on this keywork design, just as Charlie Parker and Dexter Gordon did, and a host of modern players do.