The Dutch musical instrument factory Schenkelaars was founded in 1928 by Harrrie Schenkelaars.
The brand is known worldwide due to the stencils they build like Concord.
Next to Kessels in Tilburg it was once the second largest musical instrument factory in the Netherlands.
There is a lot of uncertainty about the origin and quality of the Schenkelaars saxophones. On this page I collect the information I find here and there and I try to link the serial numbers to the origin.
The pitch tone or normal tone, is in music theory the tone a' from the single-line octave, with the scientific name A4, the pitch of which was internationally established in London in May 1939 at a frequency of 440 Hz. This was done by a group of scientists and musicians from Germany, England, France, Italy and the Netherlands. Switzerland and the United States.
The first important moment in the saxophone history happened at the Brussels Industrial Exhibition of 1841, Adolphe Sax gave a first official demonstration of his latest creation: the saxophone (literal meaning = Sax's voice).