DABICO
The DAyton Band Instrument COmpany of Dayton, Ohio, sold its own brand of saxophones under the label of DABICO. All DABICO saxophones were stencils, and a variety of companies supplied the saxophones for them. For example, some DABICO horns were made by Pierret, while others were made by Hammerschmidt. This alto is one of the later.
Besides this being a full pearl model, like my Hüttl De Luxe, note the ornate bow and neck guards, as well as the body to bow, and bell to body connecting rings. Although we don’t know when this sax might have been produced, these ornamentations are what we see in the earlier models of Hammerschmidt saxophones that had the acrylic key guards. In horns with metal key guards, these features—both in Hammerschmidt’s own Klingsor line, and in their stencils—were usually plain.
