I can guess that making O rings and saxophones are similar – just on an immensely different scale. Although John Henry died as early as 1910, his company thrived – eventually leaving the saxophone trade to help make rockets for NASA. Leaving Conn he set up The Martin Band Instrument Company in 1904 and ran in a factory at 431-433 Baldwin Street in Elkhart, Indiana. Moving to Elkhart he joined Conn, where he was one of only five employees at the time although he also made instruments for a company in Michigan. He founded The Martin Company in 1865 in Chicago but his factory was burnt down in the great fire of 1871. Johann Heinrich Martin was born in Dresden in Germany in 1835 and learnt to manufacture musical instruments there before emigrating to the US. They have a feel to them unlike any other make. I really like the precision engineering of Martin saxophones. It is a silver-plated Martin Handraft alto from 1930 and is excellent condition, made just after the stock market crash the previous year. I bought this from my saxophone technician a few years age, who had already repaired, repadded and replaced the felts on it.
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