This was a fun beast to work on! Here's an old 1920's Holton that needed just about everything. Working on bari's can be quite challenging. In essence everything is exactly the same as on any other sax, things are just bigger and of course moving the horn around in the workshop is a bear! I really dig old Holtons. They don't have the greatest rep for some reason. So far I can say every one I've had through here has ended up being a fine player. One thing I noticed is in this era they tended to make their key rods too long...so there's always some thread sticking out of the bottom of the post! This has happened with a few 20's Holtons, this was something they did for some reason. No big deal, just odd!
This baby is keyed to high F and has the Aux front F key...great axe!
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