I’d check ebay, I bought a YTS23 and it’s great…. bundys are beginner horns and old ones usually have problems and slower actions

Hi Ken,
I have a Selmer Tenor Bundy myself and I really love it. I bought 2 Trevor James Saxophones a year ago but I kept my Selmer Bundy because I love it too much 🙂 Like Johnny says we gotta play it for ourselves. Some folks will call the Bundy a “Student” model of Saxophone and feel the need to go for a Sax that may cost thousands of dollars more, thinking that they’ll sound better on the more expensive Saxophone. Then they get all disappointed when they realize their core sound was pretty much the same that it was on the “Student” model of Sax 🙂 Like Johnny is saying above, a high-quality MP along with a good tone is what makes you sound good. Here’s a couple of older videos I did on my Selmer Bundy; just a couple of simple, raw recordings (the playing isn’t perfect, coming off the beat here-and-there). There’s no reverb or anything like that. Try both of those Saxophones out and see how it goes for you, but I can tell you personally with the Selmer Bundy in good condition and a good MP, you can’t go wrong with it. After that, it’s up to you as the player behind the Sax/MP set up to get that sound to come out.

true sxpoet, first couple years any decent horn is fine… I started on bundy, then conn rentals for 2+ yrs before moving up

@ Ken: What Sxpoet is saying is exactly correct and that’s what we’re getting at here. I don’t know about the other Sax you were looking at, but I posted those old videos above (they were done back in the fall of 2014 if I remember right) simply because you mentioned a Selmer Bundy you we’re looking at and those 2 videos were done on a Selmer Bundy. But as Johnny says, the best thing to do is to play it for yourself. If you’ve never played a Tenor before, it will take some time to notice subtle differences between 2 horns, but to start off pick the one that you’re most comfortable with and work on your tone/technique. Then, like Sxpoet is saying, when you get some experience under your belt, that’s when upgrading to a pro-model Sax is good thing. As my sax Instructor would say, there’s the right and wrong reasons for changing MPs, buying a pro-model Sax, etc.. One of the wrong reasons, as he would say, would be to think that it’s the “ticket” to sounding good and it’s precisely the opposite. As he would say, take your $ and put it on a nice, solid Sax like the one your looking at, get a decent MP and a qualified Sax Instructor…make sure he’s a qualified instructor. Your $ is going to be much more well-spent on lessons with a qualified instructor v.s. a pro-model Sax.
@ William: LOL That’s an old video. Those are 2 songs I will re-do after I get my interface/mic next month and then afterwards I’ll do them again to upload here to Johnny’s site and we can all compare the videos… between now this year and the fall of 2014 that’s about 18-19 months time difference so it will be a fair comparison.