This was one cool horn. The serial number on this Buescher True Tone C melody puts it way at the end of the True Tone and C melody run...it must have been one of the last C's made in 1930!
So what you get with such a late C mel is a more modern pinky table with rollers, aux Front F key, and a better intonated neck.
This one was a real beauty too, great silver plate, pretty clean and straight. It had older pads with some life left so I did a basic servicing to get it playing. It also had the original mouthpiece which does have a certain charm to it. It's pretty subdued with that mouthpiece, you can see how the horn could be played in the parlor with the piano and not overpower anything. But if you play this horn with a medium chamber tenor mouthpiece, wow, it REALLY opens up! It doesn't sound like a tenor in this way, because it isn't, but honestly I think in most cases the right tenor mouthpiece really makes the difference with old C melodies.
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