Garrett Hypes Blog

Jim has just finished marking the tonehole locations on the body tube pictured above.  This tube and two other identical tubes will be sent back to Houli, Taiwan.  The pictured tube willserve as a template for manufacturing while the other two tubes will go on to become production prototypes.

Saxophone.com is in a history making collaboration with the famous new saxophone inventor Jim Schmidt to produce Jim’s chromatic fingered saxophone.   This collaboration also includes our contracted factory in Houli, Taiwan as well as our business associates in Taipei.  This is the first modernized fingering system change since the the saxophone was invented 163 [...]