ahh they're copying Yani's now huh? Well, the Yanagisawa soprano is one of the finest sopranos on the market right now, so that would be a good one to copy!

hmm... i thot they had a factory in Texas, guess it was just a warehouse (?) i dunno. But anyways, i posted on here about 3 months ago asking the same question. I really wanted to learn the soprano sax, but i didnt have the couple of thousands to shell out for a decent horn and i wasnt sure if i would contiune to play.... so i found Antiguas on the net. I have to say at first a was very skeptic. I asked everywhere i could, and either they haddnt heard of Antiguas or they just trie dto sell me somthing else. but anyone i talked to about Antiguas only had good things to say. apparently they are known for their saxes, and have recently done alot of research and remaking to improve their horns. anywaysm after a giant run around on trying to find a dealer in this area, i finally called the Antigua factory/warehouse in Texas. course they are all about selling me a horn, enough so that they shipped on out here for me. I finally got my Antigua 586LQ Soprano on saturday. so, i've been playing it for a week. Minding that i am still only a hs student and have never played one before... it seems to play nicely, w/ easy responce in all registers. besides that it looks very beautiful, even if that doesnt really matter. so it seems nice enough to me, as a student. but what the best part was i got the horn for a steal. its called an intermediate horn, keyed to high F#, hand ingraved on bell and body, its even got that dark laquor thing going on ( i dont know the correct term) and it came w/ a straight and curved neck. the retail price, (so the store told me) was $1400. the store that i finally bought it thru sold it to me for $740. yeah. so i figured for 700$, when i was excpecting to pay almost three times tha,t why not try it.

student model im sure for the price offered even still the price is still good for even that

i have the pro model of the antigua winds soprano and it's great! i didn't get my hopes up at first because it isn't one of those well known names or anything, but i love it! and my teacher played it and was quite impressed.