Like Borgani who brought out there Jubilee horns Rampone there R1 range. These are there best horns. The Ponzol and deluxe borgs are also nice.

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Grade fixation software. Anything other than these modern horns by them are not there best but hey I bet theres still some cracking older models for sure. I think both firms have been making horns longer than Selmer.

Theres truly a special unique feeling and sound on pure hand made Italian horns. Both of them don't and have never tried to sound like a Selmer, the French sound and that's a special thing.

I've had 4 Borgs and now a R&C and there just huge dark beasts. Yea more Conn like for sure. Just saw this by chance, I don’t recall having been asked to comment either in a mail or PM. I am afraid, Kevin, that your proposition is incorrect, this is a proper Rampone e Cazzani, certainly not a saxophone made before the company existed as such ( “ Ditte riunite' means unified, rather than what one would think, re-unified, and the unification, by way of marriage, is ancient, 1910 to be precise.long before this horn was made!

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These are relatively rare “ Solista” models. A beautiful saxophone that is considered to be, by Rampone & Cazzani themselves, one of the pinnacles of their manufacture at the time these were made. The Solista were made in the golden era of the R&C prior their first serious crisis in 1957. So the saxophone was probably manufactured in the late 20 or the early ’40. At Rampone they would be able to be more precise but only about the decade and won’t be able to exactly pinpoint the year.

The value of the horn is certainly in the eye of the beholder there isn’t a “ market” price as such. I agree, it isn’t cheap! The restoration of a horn like these cannot be undertaken by any technician and needs to use respectful materials like white pads (you don’t want to ruin this with brown or black pads!). Also, these horns were made for pads that no longer exist and probably need custom made pads to fit the special needs in therms of thickness rather than off the shelf products. Addendum As I thought, the pads of this horn appear to have the type of flute pad construction seen on a certain amount of old saxophones. As you can observe the pads appears to have a metal flat resonator with a screw on it, much in the way flute pads are still made.

Flute pads with this system are not glued in the pad. I am not sure that the same system is used also by saxophones.