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VOX Ampliphonic Tenor Sax, Saxophone, Duke Model 39 Hand-Made RARE! - $1,798 (Mountlake Terrace)

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For sale is this handmade Beaugnier (pronounced "Bone-yay") professional VOX Ampliphonic Vito Duke Model 39 Tenor Saxophone.
This saxophone is extremely rare and VERY hard to find. It was specially made by Beaugnier in France for the Vox Ampliphonics Co. This is the only Vox Ampliphonic tenor that I have ever seen or owned. The Serial #19982 dates it to the 1960’s. The Vito Duke Model 39 are widely considered to be an extremely nice playing professional Tenor Saxophone.

This Tenor Sax is in excellent original condition with original lacquer that about 90 to 95% intact. It has a mixture of new and older pads, but all the pads are in great condition and are sealing air tight. It has recently received over $150 in repairs and adjustments.
It comes in the original case with the Vox badge on the outside of the case. It includes a cool retro neck strap, and the original Vox marching lyre. I also have the electronic mic pickups and cords that may or may not work. I don't have the equipment to test it.

The amplification port is located on the side of the neck and is all original, not an after-market device. I will include the pickups and connecting wire that were in the case.
There weren't a whole lot of these VOX saxophones made, I am guessing less than 2 or 3 hundred tenor sax's.

Yes, VOX is the same company that makes amplifiers and guitars. Vox Ampliphonics is perhaps best known for providing equipment to the Beatles.

Please no trades or low-ball offers.
Cash preferred, I also accept Zelle, Venmo, and PayPal.


VOX AMPLIPHONICS:

This was the first Saxophone to be able to go directly into an amplifier or into the mixing board, but usually the instrument was purchased with a Vox Orbiter Amplified Music Stand, which doubled as a music stand and also an amplifier with speakers built in. The amp/stand had inputs with up to 4 instruments and tone controls. There were also accessories that you could get such as the Octavoice device that could fit in your shirt pocket. It allowed you to do up to 4 different octaves with one instrument. Here is a link where you can explore what VOX was doing in the 1960's to change the way music was performed and recorded. ( https://www.voxshowroom.com/reference/catalogs.html ).

I gathered this information on the WEB. (Vox actually had an Amplifonic Orchestra often led by Bill Page. All the horn players (brass and woodwinds) had an amplifonic pickup and an amplifier (which doubled as a music stand.) The pickups were for amplifying (obviously) but also for octave-dividing. I know that Vox was also trying to develop ampliphonics for marching bands to use, but I don’t know if that was ever developed past the prototype stage.

BEAUGNIER SAXOPHONES,

Beaugnier saxophones are professional quality instruments that were hand made in Paris mid-century, at the same time and place as Selmer, Buffet, SML and a few other well-known makers. The Beaugnier factory was a family-run operation and was located literally across the street from the Selmer factory. The build quality of their sax’s was excellent, the ergonomics are very friendly, intonation is great, and the tone quality is outstanding.

Despite having made a lot of pro saxophones, Beaugnier has never been much of a household name here in the USA, mainly due to the reason that they were a smaller operation than Selmer, and were often sold under other brand names, especially as Vito models. They were owned by Leblanc for much of their history, and produced saxophones for them under many different names including Leblanc, Noblet, and Vito.

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