Re: Help on mystery sax- ripoff of a super balanced.
interesting what you say about the distribution. maybe we are too far off the original topic here, but just to conclude, i'm not sure you understand this point: yes, the sba might look like the dynaction, but the question is what came first.
in 35, when selmer made balanced action, the existing buffet model was far from similar, very far. it is called powel because the designer was from that flute family, amasing horn actually, but doesn't include the features of the balanced action in any way. buffet-powell has left hand side bell holes, selmer has right hand side, for example. the next model by buffet, SA, has right hand side bell holes but that was in 1940, 5 years after selmer already made saxophones with RH bell holes. i can not find any horn that had those things at that time except selmer, correct me if i'm wrong.
moreover, one of the main changes in the sba is the left and right hands are not in a straight line, a design that lasted through the vi up until now. buffet hornes have that feature starting from S1, which is 73. it looks more like buffet learned from selmer and not the other way around.
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