hey i found your post and just know a bit about it. im getting a tru-tone myself. to check out the years you cna go here members.aol.com/fly1jet/numbers.html someone told me in my forum that they are pretty good but since they are old, you might have to get them adjusted and what not. if you want to know what else they talked about, just go to my forum in the vintage sax section. its called i need help on a 1929 buescher sax. or something like that. you should be able to find it. its fairly new.