How Selling Your Saxophone Works

1. Send photos and a price. Email sales@getasax.com with a few photos of your saxophone and the price you have in mind. If you are not sure what to ask, say so and we will make an honest and fair offer.
2. We get right back to you. We will reply with questions or with details for a purchase. We will either pay your asking price or make you a fair counter-offer based on retail used value.
3. We send you a prepaid shipping label and show you how to pack your saxophone safely. We can even help you ship a baritone with surprisingly little trouble.
4. You get paid. Simple, safe, and worry-free. No fees, no holding your money for weeks, and no buyer forcing a refund months later.

How Do I Sell My Saxophone?

GetASax is located in Durham, North Carolina. We buy saxophones almost every day, from all over the world. Many people have old saxophones around and might like to sell them. Selling to GetASax is an excellent choice for a number of reasons:

• We pay good prices. Selling to us is simple, safe, and worry-free. We will even send you a prepaid label to pay for shipping and show you how to pack your saxophone safely.
• We are serious about restoring great saxophones and making them sing again.
• We will take the best possible care of your instrument and put it into the hands of someone who will cherish it.
• Other options for selling are not that great. Craigslist has lots of scams. eBay has higher fees than consignment (13-14% or more with free shipping), holds the money for at least 25 days, and allows buyers (some of whom are pros at this) to force a refund or partial refund from you even up to six months later. Shipping to international buyers is also very difficult, insurance is very limited ($500 international), and you are responsible for damage. Local music stores tend not to offer as much as a specialty store like this can, if you have the kind of horn we sell.

So if you want to sell your saxophone, contact GetASax by email or by using the contact form and send along some photos and a price, and we can get right back to you with questions or with details for a purchase.

What Is My Saxophone Worth?

If you try to research the value of your saxophone, you will find that people are asking prices that are wildly different all over the place. Part of the reason for this is that people put junk on eBay and Craigslist for high prices all the time, hoping to find someone who will pay a crazily high price for it. Small music stores and pawn shops also often ask really high prices for saxophones that are not that rare or interesting.

Because saxophones are also collectible, their values are often closely connected to little details of the condition, like whether the finish is completely original, how much wear there is, what kinds of past repairs, whether the neck is original and in good shape, what vintage it is exactly, what engraving pattern it has, how rare it is, how desirable, whether it needs to be overhauled (which is very expensive to do right), and on and on. For example, an early serial Selmer Mark VI is sometimes worth more than double what a later serial Mark VI is worth, even with all other factors being the same. More info on Selmer saxophone values is in our guide here.

We will make you an offer on your saxophone that allows us to both overhaul it properly (costs between $900 and $1,500 for a typical horn, but can cost much more) and allow enough margin to stay in business after selling it. The people who sell us their horns typically are very happy with the prices they get, and with the ease of the process.

Horns We Want To Buy

Here are some saxophones that you might want to sell that we are always buying. Check the Museum section for more.

Selmer

Selmer Mark VI (Mark 6) soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass, C melody (fingers crossed). We pay good prices for these depending on vintage and condition. This is probably the best (most money for least effort) place to sell a Selmer Mark VI on the internet.

Selmer SBA Super (Balanced) Action saxophones. Same deal as above. GetASax is one of the best places to sell an SBA tenor or an SBA alto. I also buy SBA and Mark VI baritone saxophones and sopranos.

Other older Selmers: We pay the most that I have seen for Balanced Actions, Radio Improved, Super Sax ("cigar cutters") and even older Selmers like the New Largebore and the Adolphe Sax Selmers.

King

King Super 20 saxophones: We buy King Super 20 alto, tenor, and baritone, and we especially like the King Silver-Sonic alto and tenor saxophone models. I have paid well upwards of $10k for certain rare versions of the King Silver-Sonic, though most of them are worth quite a bit less than that.

King Zephyr Special alto and tenor saxophones. The Zephyr Special is like an early Super 20, and it is one of my particular favorite saxophones. I love to buy these and pay good prices.

Conn

We buy early C. G. Conn saxophones. I particularly like Conns from roughly 1920 to 1948 (approx. SN 75xxx to 327xxx), and my favorites are between SN 147,000 and 307,000. Conns are not always worth a ton, but they are very solid saxophones, and they deserve to be restored and made to sing again. I can often pay surprisingly high prices, well into the thousands or more, for unusual Conns like the F Mezzo, Conn-O-Sax, or the gold plated, heavily engraved, and/or Virtuoso Deluxe models.

Yamaha

We are always interested in buying Yamaha saxophones. Many people sell their used Yamahas to us. I particularly like to buy the less expensive, intermediate Yamahas, like the YTS-52, YTS-62, Yamaha 475 soprano, 675 soprano, and reasonably priced Yamaha Custom 875 and 82Z saxophones, including the YSS-82ZR sopranos. I can pay great prices for YSS-62 and especially for 62R sopranos in lacquer or in silver plate. I do buy YAS-23 and YTS-23 student saxophones if they are in good condition, with the understanding that margins are very thin on used student altos, so I can't pay a lot for them. I can always buy Yamaha baritone saxophones, like the YBS-52 and YBS-62. Those are great. I can help you ship a bari with surprising ease.

Yanagisawa

If you have a used Yanagisawa, this is also a great place to sell it. I often buy the Yanagisawa A800, A880, A900, A990, A901, and A991 alto saxophones. I buy Yanagisawa T800, T880, T900, T990, T991, T992, T9930, T9935, T9937, and T992PG tenor saxophones, as well as the new WO series Yanagisawa saxophones. I buy Yanagisawa soprano saxophones too, including the S6, S880, S990, S991, S992, S9930, and S992PG. And I buy Yanagisawa baritone saxophone models stenciled Leblanc, Vito, and others, as well as the Yanagisawa branded baritones B6, B880, B900, B901, B990, B991, B992, and the elusive B9930.

Keilwerth and H. Couf

We pay good prices for Keilwerth and H. Couf Superba 1 saxophones in alto, tenor, and baritone.

Buffet

We buy Buffet Dynaction and Super Dynaction models, as well as the S1 and Buffet Prestige saxophones.

Buescher

We buy Buescher Big B tenors and Top Hat and Cane tenors.

Martin

I buy vintage Martin saxophones also. I most often buy "The Martin Alto," "The Martin Tenor," and "The Martin Baritone" models for the best prices, and I love to buy the old Martin Handcraft sopranos cheap and fix them up. I can pay surprisingly good prices for Martin Music Man altos and tenors, and for Martin Magna baritones with low A.

Mouthpieces

We buy mouthpieces like Meyer New York, Otto Link Tone Master and Super Tone Master, Otto Link Reso Chamber tenor, M.C. Gregory Model A alto mouthpieces, and many more.

Well, that covers some of them. If you have a saxophone I buy, contact me! I'll either pay your asking price or make you a fair counter-offer based on retail used value.

Trade Us Your Saxophone

We are happy to take trades and partial trades for horns that are the kind of thing that we sell. Honest wear is fine if the horn is great. But we end up having to overhaul almost all horns that come in on trade, so take that into consideration when estimating your horn's value.