You've definitely got GAS (and funds), but I wouldn't knock you if you bought a '54 Mk6! I just wonder whether there are some purchasing decisions that you really need to delay. I'm planning a number of shop visits in the interim. And I definitely want to be reasonably comfortable with the first half octave or so of altissimo. My plan is to buy later this year once I've got at least six months of playing (in this, my second stint) and listening under my belt.
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I'm in the same position as you in that I want to purchase a really nice pro sax, but I don't feel that I'm nearly good enough to make a £4k+ (Keilwerth, Selmer, Rampone, Mauriat, etc.) decision at this stage in my development. For that money, your choice of Mk6s is essentially unlimited and you could buy pretty much *any* new alto, including an Inderbinden which many regard as the best sax in the world. I'm sure the '54 is tempting, but I assume from your reluctance to state the price that it's around £6k. If you buy it for yourself, how do you know that it's really what you want?
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