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I haven’t seen this in wind instruments from Yamaha before, but it has long been known that other low end Yamaha instruments were made in other SE-Asian countries. My Yamaha guitarlele is from Indonesia as far as I remember.

And then the tenor sax displayed in your photo hardly is from Yamaha’s top line:

http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/Con ... TID=240400

Klaus

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bloke wrote:

imperialbari wrote:the tenor sax displayed in your photo hardly is from Yamaha’s top line

It isn't exactly sold for bottom money:

http://www.music123.com/Yamaha-YTS-23-S ... 1.Music123

bloke wrote:For your viewing pleasure, here's a picture of a fairly new Yamaha tenor sax:....

It's no secret that Yamaha has had factories in China for a long time. I have a tough time understanding why they still charge so darned much for their instruments.

Eastman bought a factory in China where their tubas are built. Their tubas are exact copies of Yamaha tubas 'cause it's the same tooling. It's a small World!

Here's the 'poop' on the Yamaha 275 tenor...... http://trevorjonesltd.co.uk/Yamaha_Saxe ... phones.htm" target="_blank

Certainly a BIG difference in price between it and the YTS-23