Recently, at the NAMM show, I tried out the new Unison Legend tenors. At
the show, there was a standard gold lacquer legend and a satin silver
legend.
The Hollywood Legend tenor saxophones are manufactured by Unison. Some
features specific to this saxophone are its double bracing on the low keys
and two octave keys in the body to help with the D and G#. The bis key
has a screw adjustment from the A key, which is a hard adjustment to
maintain, but helps a lot. There is also an extra adjustment bar between
the F and F1 keys.
At the NAMM, I was able to try out both the new Legend tenor saxes (the
gold lacquer and the satin silver legend). I was impressed with the way the
satin silver tenor played as opposed to the gold. The tone was smooth and
dark, and I really liked how it sounded. The gold lacquer sax was too much
like the tenor I already play, a Unison Custom Jeff Peterson tenor
saxophone, so it did not make enough of a difference for me. However, a
friend of mine tried out both saxophones as well and felt the complete
opposite - preferring the gold sax to the silver sax.
In summary, I feel that both the tenor saxophones were very good
saxophones, preferring the silver tenor. I think that some of the features of
the saxophone help to increase the durability of the horn and are great
modifications.
