Cuber is right. Modern horns are much better for beginning band students because of the reasons he mentioned. What I would wonder about is the band instructor who says your child needs a vintage pro horn. By any chance is the instructor trying to sell you something? My Grand Daughter plays sax in a beginners class in Maryland. Her instructor never noticed that she was useing a guitar strap for a sax strap. I caught the mistake when we were together Thanksgiving. I am a longtime sax player and I also had to show her how to put the horn in her mouth correctly. Their are good teachers and bad teachers. There are smart teachers and dumb teachers. I wonder how some colleges can graduate some of the idiots that they do. Oh well............Kelsey

Agreed with the above posters. As long as the Jupiter is in good repair it'll serve your son better then a vintage horn would. At this stage a good mouthpiece upgrade will serve a much better purpose then a horn upgrade with either Meyer or Otto Link being the top two choices IMO.