Yanagisawa Alto Saxophones

Yanagisawa is one of the ONLY true saxophone specialists. Yanagisawa do not make flutes, clarinets, trumpets and all the other instruments normally found accompanying a saxophone manufacturers wares.

The alto saxophone is the usual saxophone on which one commences the learning process and often the player remains with this choice of instrument.

This does not mean that one has to stay with the Alto Saxophone and on the following pages you may explore the vast world of Yanagisawa saxophones available to you from Eltham Woodwind and Brass.

Intermediate Saxophone

Certainly the flagship of the Yanagisawa fleet! The basic saxophone in any other company could be called their student saxophone, however Yanagisawa commences with a quality far above the word student.

Specifications
Key	Eb
Range	Low Bb to High F#
Neck	Lacquered Brass
Body	Lacquered Brass
Bell	Lacquered Brass, hand engraved

The starting point in the Yanagisawa range is an instrument which will provide you with all the attributes of many of the professional instruments at a price commensurate with other instruments having many lesser qualities.

The basic Yanagisawa saxophone we have titled ‘the intermediate’ alto saxophone. It has all the features of many of the top professional models, and more! The price is competitive with their entry level saxophones.

This Yanagisawa saxophone can be proudly owned and played, either for a lifetime, or be used as a stepping off point for a truly great saxophone career, using the extended range of Yanagisawa Saxophones.

Professional Alto Saxophone

This Yanagisawa professional saxophone is truly the manifestation of the years of effort and technical effort directed towards the Yanagisawa objective of excellence.

The sound in any saxophone firstly comes from the player and the years spent in the learning process. The sound is developed in the hand crafted Yanagisawa mouthpieces, to which so many professionals are turning.

The Yanagisawa bocal (often referred to as the neck) is unique in its manufacture, providing the player with a transfer down the tonal column of every little nuance of sound produced by the player. So much attention to the manufacturing detail has provided the Yanagisawa saxophone with everything the player wants.

The Yanagisawa body is manufactured from specially selected alloys with much attention to the metalurgical treatment to make the resonance of the Yanagisawa saxophone second to none.

The mechanism and sealing of the Yanagisawa saxophone is an engineers dream. The linkages and fitting of the keys, the availibility of alternate fingerings (which work), and special attention to the players needs, provide the Yanagisawa artist with a tool of excellence.

Specifications
Key	Eb
Range	Low Bb to High F#
Neck	Lacquered Brass
Body	Lacquered Brass
Bell	Lacquered Brass, hand engraved

Silver Alto Saxophone

Many manufacturers have tried to make a silver saxophone, manufactured it and sold only the first samples and retired from the field.

The unsurpassed resonance of the Yanagisawa Silver Saxophone has provided the world with an instrument which combines the pure sound of the silver instrument with the biggest fat sound which explodes into life with the lightest puff from the diaphragm.

The Yanagisawa Silver Saxophone plays so freely and responds so beautifully across every note of the range (including harmonics) that you could be forgiven for thinking that it is doing the playing for you. (No - this Yanagisawa Silver Saxophone does not make cups of coffee at 10am each morning for it's owner)

When asked is it ‘bigger’, ‘fatter’, ‘softer’, ‘warmer’, ‘harder’, ‘edgier’, ‘rounder’, ‘better than’ or ‘louder' — there is no answer to this question. The Yanagisawa Silver saxophone is a completely different sound and one which the player will fall in love with instantly. It is the perfect saxophone. If you play one you will have to buy one.

Specifications
Key	Eb
Range	Low Bb to High F#
Neck	Sterling Silver
Body	Stirling Silver
Bell	Lacquered Brass, hand engraved