Repairman's Overview: Vibrato Plastic Saxophone
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Saxophone repairman Matt Stohrer of Stohrermusic.com was able to briefly take a look at the Vibrato plastic saxophone.
For a full writeup including photos see the post from 1/13/2011 on my blog at mattstohrer.com...
Update 1, including letter from president of Vibrato: mattstohrer.com...
Wow, so they are finally making these things, eh? I'll bet it was four years ago when I saw them "announced" on SOTW. I guess most of us gave up that they'd ever really show up. I'd love to hear it play. Hope they get the quirks and foibles worked out. I guess you can get 'em wet without causing much damage? Thanks so much for this sneak peak at one of these interesting horns.
I sold Grafton acrylic alto saxophones in the 60s. If they had made them from polycarbonate, and continued to improves them, and rework the spring system, it could have been a top professional horn. John E Dallas the distributor went bankrupt around 1968 and the steel moulds were sold for scrap and melted down. I expect this vibrator sax will take 3 or 4 more years before they get up to a pro level polycarbonate is an excellent choice of material almost unbreakable Best regards Lee Mason
your comment is 10 years old and they are not there yet...
Great sir. ❤️. Any advice on how to repair if the key mechanism is broken?
Very nice and informative review!
Thanks for uploading!
Hope this company will continue to make these models better and cheaper!
Do you know if a standard mouthpiece would fit on this sax?
Excelente!
So, were you able to fix the upper stack leak? And how does the horn feel (eg. responsiveness, resonance)? Lastly, what's the price of this wonder-horn?
your keys to adjust the tuning? I bought one just like it and I can not tune to the G up.
Do you know what edition this is as there has been several?
have you seen the newer version of this saxophone?
Nope. If I had money to burn I would have bought the clear one though.
that self adjusting pads would be an excellent idea for pad cups in brass instruments, don't you think?
Absolutely not. Selmer already tried years ago……….
Hi, can you please tell me how I may obtain one of these? I'm really curious!!
Matthew D. Brown I have a clear Vibrato sax for sale new
$850.
Why would they put the coupling rings on the inside?
to make it look more like a "real" sax, i guess.
Improve tone.
I would not recommend this sax springs come of a ball point pen pads OK action terrible if your a pro player it won't work for you.Pro player repairer Mobile Woodwind Service Melb AU's.
That Mingus in the background though.....
So true.
Awesome!!!!!!
So this is like the modern Grafton
make a soprano sax and alto and bass flute in this material. Flute would need a metal
HJ I suppose.
It is not correct to say it is the FIRST polycarbonate sax. I have been making open holed straight C sopranissimo saxophones since 1998. If you are interested in seeing a photo go to flickr dot com and punch in polymer sax Best regards leebm29
I have the see through NUDE model it’s fun to play. The pads are silicone and you can play it in the pool lol totally submerge it to clean it. It’s a fun novelty but doesn’t really sound bad and if you needed to play in the rain or a wet environment it would be your answer . There is a slight learning curve as you need to press the pads down a bit harder to get a seal .
Can you tell me where did you buy it please?
Mingus on piano!
Ok. the "Case" thing has me concerned. The case is styrofoam and a cardboard box . . . Seriously . . . ? A plastic horn will need more prodection than that.
hahah an updated grafton
So you do have to take them to a sax repair shop and not to a plumber :)
YES I AM SELLING THAT PICCOLO
Duel of the fates
sorry that was my little brother hes not selling his piccolo
I,ll give you a golden plated piccolo you can sell for $246.65 if you give me the sax & the piccolo comes with a case