For sale is a Selmer Super Balanced Action baritone saxophone!
This horn is a prime era Selmer SBA serial #49xxx with its matching serial #49xxx neck!
This saxophone is one of the extremely rare early low A baritones.
There were only ever 180x total low A Selmer Super Balanced Actions ever produced.
Specifically this is the earlier 2 piece bell variant that there were only 50x total ever produced out of the 180x total. 1 of 50 is just incredibly rare!
This saxophone is going to need a full overhaul and pad job to be any kind of functional saxophone.
This horn is sold as not working and has its fair share of strong red/green metal wear, heavy patina, scratches, dings, dents, fleabites, repair marks, weld marks and other anomalies associated with such a poor condition vintage horn.
No case is included.
This saxophone appears to have been spray painted with some kind of gold spray paint. It seems like the bulk of the spray paint was on the upper 1/3rd of the bell.
There are 2 band marks around the upper bell. The horn had one of those old school sax stands that have 2 clamps around the bell that stay permanent. Then that metal piece fits right onto the sax stand to hold it.
The sax stand clamp was also spray painted with the gold paint. They didnt take off the clamp stand prior to spraying.
Once the clamps were removed you could see a beautiful finish underneath!
In theory without to much trouble during the overhaul process you could remove all of the paint to reveal a beautiful finish. Although we dont know exactly how it will look or "what lies beneath" it probably will turn out pretty great improved from how it looks now.
This saxophone includes its factory matching serial number neck! The neck has no pickups, or patches. Baritone necks have a way of getting lost, destroyed or damaged, so to have the confirmed matching serial number neck is just fantastic.
A horn like this is a truly rare occurrence to come to market. With only 50 ever made you just have to assume the vast majority are fully destroyed or locked up into life time collections.
If you enjoy the restoration process this will be an awesome piece to bring back to life and see come alive!
This horn is on sale at our Los Angeles, California saxophone showroom store and can sell at any point so if you have been looking for a Selmer SBA bari please buy and pay confidently we will ship ASAP upon payment!