We’ll revisit this issue again once we’ve published a few more reviews. If we assume this is anomalously heavy, then there would be no weight drop in the 1950s. Our result for the 1940s is skewed by only having one representative – ‘The Martin’. We did discover differences over time which we put down to the continuous development of extra keys and features. Surprisingly we didn’t discover significant differences between brand, so perhaps the idea that good quality saxophones are heavier is refuted by our comparison. The average weight of the 14 altos (including mouthpiece) we’ve reviewed to date was 4lb 5oz (2.19 kg). In general we believe our featured horns are representative of the major brands on sale from the 1920s onward. ![]() We looked at the weight of all of the saxophones we’re reviewed to date here at Saximus Maximus and thought we’d see how things have developed.
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