Here's one of the 1st early Buffet Evette & Schaeffer horns I've had my hands on. I see a lot of the later French (Malerne) & Italian E&S horns, but this one is from the 1920s.
This horn had a great sound! I got it playing on the old pads, it had a rough neck socket that will need replacing in the future but all in all it was a player. The tone was superb and the build quality was good, well made for sure.
One interesting thing about the key work, there was no way to play F# with your right hand middle finger like you can on most any other sax, but there was a neat way to play an Eb trill with a special key setup. This is not to be confused with the American version of Eb trill, this is a totally unique approach to this. Not sure if they did this on other horns or not, but I'm assuming they did.
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