Time to turn over some inventory! With trade show season over, we are blowing out some P Mauriats at super low prices! Many of these were just demo horns, play tested at the various shows we went to, but otherwise in NEW condition, and all still have full warranty. Each one will get our pro set up again, so every one will ship in perfect playing condition. If you’ve thought about getting one of these great saxes but have been holding out for a deal, you won’t find them at lower prices! Check out our special section and get one quickly!

http://www.saxquest.com/store/category/p-mauriat-specials-C54

GREAT NEWS on the Buffet SENZO front! Price Reduction……..new Buffet SENZO now $5495.

We had a great discussion with Buffet at NAMM this year! They are totally committed to making the best saxophone ever! Although the SENZO is expensive to manufacture, Buffet really wants to make the barrier to entry for players as low as possible.

Buffet is one of the few companies where the top brass are still actually musicians. They get it!!! I’ve never had another company approach me about working together to find creative ways to reduce the end price for the player!

Here’s a great clip of Jeff Collins demonstrating the new Buffet SENZO on Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition – The Old Castle.

We’ve been busy putting together a few events at the Saxquest shop this spring & summer. We’re still hashing out the details on a few, but here’s a couple you can start marking your calendars for:

On Saturday, April 4, we’re going to have Jamey Aebersold for a clinic from 2-4pm. We’ve been wanting to host Jamey for quite some time, and we are very excited to finally put this together! His Play-A-Long series and summer jazz workshops are a long-time staple in many an advancing jazz saxophonist’s upbringing.

A few weeks after that, on Saturday April 25, we’re going to have a “Selmer Clarinet Day” at the Saxquest shop from 2-4pm. Conn-Selmer will be on hand with the latest and greatest Selmer Paris model clarinets for you to play test in our store. We may also put together a mini-concert or clinic for this event as well.

More events will continue to be added, please put these down on your calendar and check back for more!

We are (finally) through the trade show season for us. After visiting JEN, NAMM, Midwest, ILMEA, MMEA, and TMEA, we are now realizing the Saxquest shop is a little too quiet! Come visit us in St Louis, and bring your mouthpiece to make some noise! You can try out the newest P Mauriat Master 97 saxes, or a Yamaha Custom Z in “vintage bronze” finish, or a great old Mark VI. We also have a huge selection of new and vintage mouthpieces for you to play test as well. You can see the impressive Saxquest museum on our second floor, or see a sax or clarinet all disassembled in our repair shop. Regular hours 10am – 6pm during the week, and 10am – 2pm on Saturdays. Please come by with a few hours to spare and try out some equipment!

Looking ahead to 2015, we are lining up some very nice events starting this spring. As in the last couple years, we’ll try to bring an exciting lineup of master classes, intimate concerts, and Q & A’s with some of today’s great players and educators. Please continue to check our events page or the news section here for when these events get announced, or call us to sign up for our email notification list when these events get put together. We’ll see you at the ‘quest!

We split up this year! If you are attending either MMEA in Missouri or ILMEA in Illinois this week, we will see you there! Each booth will have a good 25 saxes or so as well as 10+ clarinets. We’ll have the latest reeds and mouthpieces from D’Addario & Vandoren as well. Come by the booth, play a sax or mouthpiece, and say hi.

If you are stuck in St Louis, the shop will be open normal hours, but the stock will be somewhat… lessened. If you are looking for a particular horn, best to call ahead to make sure it is here before driving in. Everyone will be back in the shop, returned to normal come Monday (at least until TMEA in a couple weeks!).

Thanks to all that stopped by at the Saxquest booth at the Midwest Clinic and said hello. We’ve got a little break but our next clinics will the MMEA and ILMEA shows at the end of January. We also might have a free event at Saxquest the coming month so check back for updates!

For the holiday stretch, we will be closing early at 1pm on Christmas Eve, closed on Christmas, but open normal hours on Friday from 10am – 6pm and on Saturday from 10am – 2pm. Next week we’ll only be closed on New Year’s Day and open regular hours otherwise. Everyone have a good holiday!

We had another great clinic this past weekend with Jeff Coffin & the Mu’tet. A big thanks to all those that came out for it, and all of the clinics and performances and master classes we had this year. We had a lot of fun bringing these artists in and hope to continue more next year!

With the holidays upon us, conventions and trade shows are just around the corner. If you’ve been a long time customer but have never made the trek to our shop in St Louis, hopefully we can meet you at one of these over the next couple months. This season, we’ll be visiting the Midwest Clinic in Chicago, JEN in San Diego, TMEA down in Texas, and of course locally we’ll be at MMEA here in Missouri and ILMEA over in Illinois. Though we won’t have a booth there, Saxquest president Mark Overton will also be loitering around the NAMM show in Anaheim. Please visit our booths, try a sax out (or three) and let us put faces to those of you we’ve talked to over the phone. See you soon!