Getzen Elkhorn tenor sax

Here's another interesting tenor saxophone to come through the shop recently.

It's marked with the Getzen Elkhorn name, but,  not actually made by Getzen.   In this case the company only manufactured brass instruments and they farmed out woodwinds to other companies,  this tenor saxophone was certainly made in Italy probably by Orsi.

I had another old Italian tenor through the shop in the last year,   they're well built, sturdy,  decent playing horns.  This one was actually pretty darn clean,  the original lacquer was well maintained and there were only a few small dings.   I believe there was one not so neat post re-solder on the low end,  and the neck showed the most damage although was fully functional. 
The pads were all old, but, still sealing and I was able to just do a basic once over on the horn before giving it my stamp of approval. 

Another plus for this horn is that it came with a nice old French hard rubber mouthpiece.   It was one of the types marked on France on the side of the table,  these are often quite good.

These are good horns for the money!