I bought through E-bay with lessons from KK. I have to say this is a great deal. I hadn't played in years and wanted to get back into it (I sold my Selmer Mk VI for a crazy $1250 twenty years ago - I should have kept it for an investment). Anyway, this is a nice sax - plays pretty well - relatively bright, decent key action. A couple of points - this came with mouthpiece, reeds, and a tuner. My advice, throw away the mouthpiece and reeds - total crap, especially for a beginner, but keep the tuner. Spend a couple of bucks on a Yamaha or Rico mouthpiece and some decent reeds - makes a huge difference. As a budget sax, the tuning on a couple notes is out, so long tones with the tuner is necessary to hear the proper pitch and adjust your chops. I'm having a lot of fun with playalong with canned backround. I did have one quality issue - solder joint come loose after a couple of weeks on the octave key which cost $10 to fix - this was too much hassle through seller (in CA) - it looked

It is a beautiful instrument. The sound is great! My son uses this sax for marching band and concerts. It is easy to maintain too. He also has the gold plated version of this one.