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Prior to Czechoslovakian independence in 1919, the region was a German speaking area of North West Bohemia. From that date on, production of musical instruments of all types flourished in the area. A violin makerвЂ™s guild was established there in 1669, and was the start of over 300 years of musical instrument making tradition in Kraslice. One of the most important areas for the production of musical instruments in the world is the area in and around Kraslice in the now Czech Republic.

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I used the online Google translation service for the translation from German to English.ДЇinally, I take full responsibility for the content of this article, and I invite corrections and improvements where they are required. I especially want to thank Klaus Dapper ( and Klaus Schneider ( their websites provided the basis for this article. I do believe that AmatiвЂ™s line of saxophones and instruments deserve a fair consideration from Canadian and American consumers. I admit my Czech-Canadian heritage and that I am a bit of a вЂshillвЂ™ for the Amati brand. I will leave it to some scholar in the future to write the definitive history, with names, details and facts that I have not included in this short summary. My goal is to provide some insight in the evolution and revolutions that have taken place to result in the Amati-Denak company of today. The instrument makers were directly impacted by European wars of the Twentieth Century, Nazi and Soviet expansionism and the Cold War. The history of saxophones and other instruments produced by the predecessors of Amati-Denak is complex, confusing and convoluted.

The opinions in this article are the authorвЂ™s and I reprint it here without any edits. I liked them less than other beginner flutes, though maybe it was leaking I don't know.This 2008 article has been reprinted in whole with the permission of its author, Dennis Gazarek. I'm a beginner and can't really judge so much. Pretty much all were pretty decent, felt fine, sounded ok (with the exception of the C clarinet which seemed to have severe intonation problems, like my Forte made by Amati, in fact they seemed exactly the same) but nothing exciting IMO. The ones I tried (bari, alto, tenor, sop clarinet, C clarinet, bass clarinet) didn't make me want to stay and try more. Just yesterday I came back from Musikmesse and I tried the Amatis again (in addition to too many other things ). I always find problems with both old and new ones. Some young students play realtively new Amati student models, both clarinets and saxophones. These are usually relatively older models.

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Some local players, including professional players, have Amati saxophones and really like them. The stock mouthpiece was always awful for the ones I saw but maybe just a coincidence. I worked on Amatis more than a few times, both saxophones and clarinets. It reminded me of some of the complex keywork on a Leblanc horn, but without the quality.ДЄmati also makes the Keilwerth EX models, IIRC. It looked like someone had gotten plans from a YTS-52 and translated the measurements off by a couple MM, so some keys had to sit on flanges and such.

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I bought one several years ago, because it came with a hard-shell formed case I wanted (good case + free sax). There seems to have been at least one or two models after the Amati Toneking models and before the Classic Super, but I've not been able to get pics: I've just heard of them.Д¬urrent Amati production is of instruments that have visual similarity to Yamaha horns, but aren't high quality. This was student-quality and wholly made by Amati. * Amati Classic Super, which was also stenciled as the King Lemaire.

If we go by when Amati was created (1945-1948), this would be one of the very first horns from Amati.

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* An Amati 'A880' Alto, which has a Kohlert serial number.

There are pics of full-on Keilwerth models in here, as well as 'Amati-assembled' horns with their own serial numbers. The fun part about that is that some Amatis used full bodies - and sometimes keywork an/or model names, too - from Kohlert, Julius Keilwerth models and probably other manufacturers. Oh, I can tell you a lot about Amati saxophones.ДЇirst, Amati was a 'nationalized' company that was made up of bits and pieces of other Czech (Markneukirchen) companies that were around pre-WWII.