(As an aside, I had the opportunity to examine a Cavalier metal clarinet for sale a couple months ago, and it felt exceptionally cheap and flimsy. And it potentially could mean that the Cavalier altos didn't lose the split bell keys until after the war, but with how many of those metal clarinets there are, which we know couldn't've gone past 1955, I think the production window is rather narrow. I'd venture to guess that the Colonial were Pan-Am stencils and the Clarion were Cavaliers, which might give some hints as to production dates.
I saw a brochure for Continental (a Conn subsidiary, if I'm informed correctly) instruments from July 1938, which showed "Colonial" and "Clarion" lines of saxophones - the Colonial had the newer alto design but split bell keys on the tenor, while the Clarion had split bell keys on both. Plus, the switch from split to single-side bell keys happened around 9000 on the alto, and somewhere in close proximity to that on the tenor. The highest serial I've seen for one is a bit over 10000, and Cavalier clarinets went at least to 65000. I don't think the Cavalier saxophones persisted much past WWII, if at all.
PanAms became Directors in '57.but I doubt Cavaliers lasted into the '50's.Ĭlick to expand.Cavaliers had their own sequences - separate brass and woodwind, same as Conn and Pan-Am had. I am fairly sure I have seen Cavalier saxes with same-side bellkeys on eFlay from time to time. It might even be fair to hazard a guess that they lasted up until WWII.but no further. I think it is solid to say that they existed into 1938, as there are online examples. I cannot say I have ever seen a post-war Cavalier.at least not by stylistic identification. Therefore, as Conn split-bells ceased to exist in the mid '30's or so.fair to say that your guestimate date on your horn is correct.īTW.there are a lotta PanAms which do not have the "P" prefix in the serial.and a lotta Conn stencils also are absent the "P" prefix. Now, in another thread we discuss that, in fact, the sax bodies of PanAms and Conns are the same, it is the keywork and inclusion or exclusion of RTH which make them different. According to the Conn Loyalist site, they were marketed as being "Produced by the Pan American company". I do not know when the name brand Cavalier vanished from use. The latest Cavalier instruments I have found were late '30's.these being Cornets and Mellophones.
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