A Rampone & Cazzani for All Tenor Players
Rampone & Cazzani is known for high-end saxophones that are strictly handmade using techniques passed down through generations of artisans. Incorporating the company’s proprietary large-bore design, these horns are popular with accomplished pro players. Each of these instruments is a unique work of art — and commands a commensurate price tag. The company’s Performance Series, on the other hand, offers more accessible instruments with modern designs aimed at a wider spectrum of players. Take the Rampone & Cazzani Performance tenor. Featuring a more standard contemporary bore taper, this professional saxophone is remarkably easy to play, but it still delivers the essence of that resonant, multidimensional sound for which Rampone & Cazzani is famous. As such, the Performance tenor gives you the best of both worlds.
Performance and value
For the Performance Series, the company set out to modernize a new model and fine-tune the Rampone & Cazzani experience for a broader range of saxophonists. To that end, instead of myriad combinations of metals and multiple finishes on offer, there is one Performance tenor model with a standardized material and finish — brass with a beautiful vintage cognac lacquer, in this case. Therefore, Rampone can produce this instrument in higher quantities and thus keep the cost down. At the same time, the company’s expertise in painstaking handcraftmanship can be applied to the design of Performance Series instruments.
Free-blowing playability
Nestled inside a newly designed neck, body, bow, and bell, the Performance tenor’s narrower bore focuses your air stream more for a free-blowing playing experience. As contrasted with the wide bore geometry of Rampone & Cazzani’s bespoke models, this new Rampone custom bore still presents sufficient resistance to allow you to sculpt your own personal sound. As with all their instruments, the company’s obsessive attention to detail gives you an incredibly responsive horn with fast, fluid keywork, flawless mechanisms, and a broad range of expression. If you’re a tenor player looking for Rampone & Cazzani quality in your first professional horn, the Performance tenor is for you.
About Rampone & Cazzani
Nestled in the picturesque Italian Alps lies the small village of Quarna Sotto. Here resides the Rampone & Cazzani factory, where artisans handcraft boutique saxophones that exude old-world character using traditional methods passed down through two centuries. The thick, solid red brass, bronze, copper, nickel silver, and sterling silver comprising these instruments bear the distinctive marks of hand hammering and painstaking hand assembly, giving each horn a unique sonic and visual character that distinguishes it from all others. The fastidious care lavished on their bespoke models is manifest in the exceptional quality of every product Rampone & Cazzani produces, including their surprisingly affordable Performance Series. If you’ve dreamed of playing a high-end boutique instrument that will set you apart from the pack, it doesn’t get any better than this. When you’re ready to step up to the ultimate in handcraftmanship, Sweetwater invites you to luxuriate in the romance of owning a Rampone & Cazzani.
Rampone & Cazzani Performance Series Professional Tenor Saxophone Features:
- Brass construction with vintage lacquer finish
- Newly designed neck, body, bow, and bell
- Free-blowing Rampone custom bore
- Lightened keywork action
- Range: low Bb to high F#
- Mother-of-pearl key touches
- Professional pads
- Special “zig zag” hand engraving pattern
- Includes GoBag Case, mouthpiece, and accessories
