Alto Saxophone
date: label: date made
content: ca 1927
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This saxophone was made for Sears, Roebuck and Company catalog by Martin Band Instrument Company in Elkhart, Indiana, about 1927. It is low-pitch Alto Saxophone Perfacktone model in E-flat, serial #6642, made of brass with pearl keys. Accessioned with original case. The saxophone is engraved:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>PERFACKTONE<br>LOW PITCH<br>A<br>6642</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This saxophone was purchased through Sears, Roebuck and Company catalog by the donor’s brother, Dr. Henry C. Sivik, in 1929. Sivik played this saxophone from 1929 to 1933. He gave this saxophone to the donor in 1939, who played it in several high school and community groups until 1967.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Juliana Sivik Samoriski
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.79.07
label: catalog number
content: 79.07
label: accession number
content: 1978.2532
objectType: label: Object Name
content: saxophone
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: saxophone: 23 1/4 in x 9 in x 5 1/8 in; 59.055 cm x 22.86 cm x 13.0175 cm
label: Measurements
content: mouthpiece: 3 1/4 in x 1 1/8 in; 8.255 cm x 2.8575 cm
label: Measurements
content: neck: 6 5/8 in x 3 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 16.8275 cm x 8.255 cm x 4.445 cm