Saxophone Collection Biggest in the World

Rutgers classical saxophone instructor Paul Cohen has over 200 saxophones composing the largest private collection in the world. Watch and find out which instruments are his favorites and see how he finds his "personal voice" playing the sax.
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[@michaelhdz989]

*sees mini saxophone* oh I want one! "They only made one" Oh well...

[@lakeskakelsey6588]

R.I.P you won't get it any time soon I know how you feel.

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

There’s always a curved soprano sax.

[@biggiecheese532]

Michael Hdz you can get a piccolo saxophone

[@sallyjjdavis]

there are other brands that make curved sopraninos. try rampone & cazzani

[@03Venture]

I heard that Orsi still makes curved sopranino saxes in Italy.

[@markx1420]

This guy must be rich

[@sarpong09]

In this economy

[@soggyeggroll2003]

I'm sure he's a professional musician and collector who can refurbish old saxes for money

[@mylesanderson5864]

i think he just doesn’t have a wife or kids to spend money on

[@desmondferguson7550]

YEAH

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

Yeah, you don’t have to be rich to have this kind of an interest. You can have a limited amount of money and still focus it in this particular area.

[@cruzleyva05]

this would be heaven for me

[@Roblomix]

Cheesebugga jr. same

[@susiepark8985]

Me: he probably has like 20 saxophones Him: I have 200 in my collection Me: nEveR mInD tHeN

[@user-rl8ow5vr9k]

凄いサックスの数… 日本人はいませんか？？

[@user-xq5hc4zd5z]

鎖那さん 呼びましたか？

[@semi5211]

いまーす笑

[@user-cr5gk7lv5f]

サムネのサックスのでかさとちっちゃさにビックリしてきた日本人です🙌

[@hmlqn875]

鎖那 はーい🙋いますよ〜笑

[@Oscar-nu4oh]

A webo :v

[@gary1961]

I hope he's got that collection insured for millions.

[@HighTen_Melanie]

I’m a wind instrumentalist mainly play the flute but found this absolutely fascinating and a joy to watch. Thanks so much! 🎼🎵🎶

[@garrettring2527]

Where do you get your reeds for the rare ones?

[@maddiewantstodie3952]

Garrett Ring he probably makes them himself

[@garrettring2527]

maddie wants to die maybe

[@oatjohnsonmeal3292]

The curved sopranino used mass produced reeds

[@jimbles717]

You can make blanks and cut them to the size you want

[@brookehagner681]

Most likely the hey are hand made by him

[@BriansThing]

this collection is really amazing! thanks for sharing!!!!

[@cosmicsuccubus6515]

I actually got hit with nostalgia when he started playing Rhapsody in Blue, the beginning solo.

[@MexSax]

This sopranino has some weird 1/4 tone intervals at some moments (upper register I believe). Wonderful collection, wish I could try one of these ! 🌵🎷

[@lanebodey1782]

Mex Sax it’s called soprano

[@dillonheard2470]

LegendzOf there’s a difference between soprano and sopranino

[@chris-fd9vr]

@@dillonheard2470 well there the same notes but different pitch/tone

[@wungomungo6177]

LegendzOf Stupid asshole

[@jr-7069]

Are you from that KZbin video when the U.S. army comes and talks about saxophones

[@shackhurst]

Najar 12 He is

[@jr-7069]

StarBurritoTV oh

[@patrickdabreau4664]

He also has a video on the history of the saxophone. Check it out.

[@scottpaul7427]

"Guy has over 200 saxophones" "Great! Let's show 2"

[@RutgersToday]

Yep, that's what stinks about having a time limit..... the cutting room is brutal!

[@RutgersToday]

Here's a longer video with Paul and his collection: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pl7FZ3xnns2baNU

[@IceBear56862]

Saxophones are very beautiful, they have such an amazing sound. I'm glad that I play saxophone, it is a tenor

[@jonatanmaricelo]

clearly someones who loves this instrument. amazing!

[@Rv12_pilot]

I love how the first song he plays is the one untied uses.

[@Aaronaitor]

0:32 As a clarinetist, I am offended.

[@RutgersToday]

MAYBE the clarinet sounds better for that piece.... MAYBE. ;)

[@Aaronaitor]

Rutgers Today It definitely sounds better. Although, saxophone did a good job at it I guess.

[@yeahoh2222]

Lolll

[@mr_organ]

Same

[@liebestraumboi3366]

@Rutgers Today Though saxophone does have a nice sound, clarinet has a different and unique sound that I believe fits rhapsody in blue better. As well as that, clarinets can glissando at the beginning.

[@richmock6284]

Thank you for sharing. Just to find that it exists.....seeing the King curvy 'nino and hearing it gets played was quite a treat.

[@AhiTuna_]

*When which instrument you chose in a five minute period in grade seven controls which instrument you play for the rest of your life*

[@Housephonestimes4]

Great bloke! Keep up with the good works! Look after them!

[@neptune8898]

Just awesome! So neat how many you have.

[@tophu7903]

I always felt that there was a rivalry between the saxophone and clarinet

[@RutgersToday]

Oh please tell me there's beef between the sax and clarinet!

[@tophu7903]

Rutgers Today That’s just what I felt.

[@jordanhendrick7848]

Molly on the shore

[@nightshifter3162]

Also rhapsody in blue

[@ahuddleofpenguins4842]

My favorite

[@jackieriggs1145]

Beautiful

[@user-yr6gq5sc9r]

thank you

[@doronsieradzki192]

Fantastic!!! shalom from Israel. Cool collection!!!

[@TommyOnSax]

Nice Video!

[@darkzeus691]

I want that collection damn

[@ehara37]

日本人おる？？？？？

[@larwack6623]

Huh

[@user-uh4jw9pw2o]

はーい🙋日本人です！

[@pc474]

呼んだ？

[@gessesantossaxsofonista4061]

🎼🎷Que legal todos esses sax ! Que História muito legal 🎷

[@skylerhester6220]

that is a nice sarrusaphone you have there, same with that bass sax

[@aleciasaxophonist1186]

As a saxophonist your collection is my dream

[@mmfsonb3252]

love that guy

[@Sakura-vg7ie]

I like how the music is a flute song but it's a video about saxophones

[@gabeproductions224]

A world without the sax would be hell

[@fallen2556]

*regrets choosing clarinet in band but knows he can't play sax now*

[@benjibarker4694]

[TS9] Ecolyte same

[@queep8197]

Nah clarinet is way better then sax

[@Sealoc]

Queep yeet

[@queep8197]

GameGeek 15 same

[@garrettkc4084]

Same

[@isaquesantos7671]

Muito bom

[@gastondebernardis3362]

Thank you for sharing all those precious information about the saxophone. Really beautiful video. By the way the largest saxophone collection in the world is owned by Attilio Berti in Italy…

[@viniciusalves2471]

Incrível

[@soccerissodangcoollol6189]

Nice bro!

[@musicalguy9]

cool one of my friends plays Soprano Saxophone and Baritone Saxophone

[@steamy4042]

My favorite saxophone ISSSS The classic Alto saxophone

[@7quercus77]

Biggest Collection in the World? Maybe in 2016. Today the biggest collection is in Italy - Museo del Saxofono. I'm looking forward to visit it.

[@SetoKaiba2fab4u]

Dude, our show was rhapsody in blue and all of a sudden I hear his play and I like fall out of my seat

[@speters3345]

Tje ti y one looks so so so so so so cooooolll i wanna try to play it

[@rymy3011]

Just visited a saxophone collector in Jakarta. 300 saxophones. Interesting!

[@maxcrowe3900]

I’m pretty sure Rhassan Roland Kirk used to play that horn which looks like a straight-ish tenor with a cup thingy where the bell would be. Great video, thanks for posting.

[@ieatpoop563]

I want to play that tuba looking one behind him

[@ieatpoop563]

TheCosmicCharizard acyually it does lookmlike a tuba

[@5oulsFN]

i eat poop The tubax?

[@dabort]

0:05 He ain’t wrong.

[@pintopsychs2966]

Wow that’s a lot of 🎷

[@joaovictorbazani4729]

my favorite world🎷

[@akualezlihope7301]

More, please! I covet the curved sopranino! Hope some modern mfg makes some. Will you have it scanned so it can be replicated?

[@pantoferowski7949]

Wow😮😮😮😮

[@2Jeffrey]

wow

[@danmcbmusic]

jealous! heee hee what a great guy!

[@ma._.me3]

カーブドソプラノサックスかわいい(*/ω＼*)

[@hideyama7917]

ソプラニーノですね～

[@user-mb5wy1vc5q]

あなた、、、もしかして丘上の風にいた人、、、？

[@user-pn8du6te1e]

ソプラニッシモだとおもいますよ！

[@Frost_Val]

I like how they put molly on the shore as the background music

[@tf.00]

0:06 weird keys

[@mchenrymaney262]

that bottom white pearled key is a low A extension.

[@Trice62]

McHenry Maney it's an f# alternate key dumbo

[@Trice62]

For high register f#

[@Jackson-sr7ms]

Smh normal keys normal layout...

[@patrickflores5722]

Tfw they play rhapsody in blue

[@EarthyCrown]

I’ll buy one

[@shealinbanta4169]

I love the saxophone! I’ve been playing this instrument ever since I was in 6th grade. I still play now in high school, and I will continue to play for a really long time. I play the alto saxophone in marching band, and I play both the alto and tenor saxophone in concert band. I tried playing a little bit of the baritone saxophone when I was in middle school, but it was too heavy for me. I just stick to playing alto and tenor saxophone in school. My old marching band friend played the baritone saxophone in marching band before he graduated high school in 2019. I really want to try out the soprano saxophone because that instrument looks like a golden clarinet kind of. My high school band room doesn’t have one sadly though. One of my friends at school has his own soprano saxophone that he uses for jazz band which is super cool. The saxophone wasn’t actually the first instrument I learned because I played the drums before saxophone. I joined the school band in 4th grade at the age of 10 to play the drums. I play both the drums and saxophone, but I would stick to playing the saxophone in school because they’re a lot of drummers in my high school band. I would love to have a giant saxophone collection like he does because that would be really cool! I would has different types of saxophones and they would be different colors. It is awesome that he has the biggest saxophone collection in the world! I have these saxophones in my collection: Gold alto saxophone Teal alto saxophone Gold tenor saxophone Gold baritone saxophone

[@americana1234]

maybe some day you will become an instrument collector, it's really amazing and fun as well

[@shealinbanta4169]

@@americana1234 I hope so

[@mediocrefarts7029]

i get ur obsession.. i play the saxophone 😂

[@spriteanimations3226]

YESSSS SAXOPHONE GANNNGGG 🎷

[@layahsolis7320]

Ahh Rhapsody in blue 💚

[@nate-uq6fb]

I am a 6th grader playing the tenor sax and I really love it and the noise when I play an E it's the best noise everr.

[@leocano6700]

REe KiD ayeeee im in 7th grade and i play tenor saxx tooooooo

[@leocano6700]

I also started playing tenor sax in 6th grade ayeeeeeee

[@briborka3597]

As soon as I’m 18 I need to marry this man, in the hopes that he leaves his collection to me.

[@thebyte0f879]

Me: Man, where could I get these? They look so cool! Paul Cohen: only one of these ever exist in the entire world. Me: ... Nevermind, then. In all seriousness, this is a pretty cool collection.

[@luejohan8540]

What is the name of the piece he played on the sopranino?

[@luismantaras6460]

who owns the white, golden Keyed plastic sax Ornette Coleman played in "The shape of Jazz to come" that I could see at 0:51 (that's it?) and the transparent_plastic Charles Parker played in Washington? Congratulations!

[@liljuicebox5789]

I’m glad I switched from flute to sax saved my life

[@akeelali7446]

Molly on the shore? I’m weak😂😂☠️

[@robertdeen8741]

I saw another curved sap sax but I can't recall who'd made it. Guess since he's since passed I can say, it belonged to Mr Marshal Ripps. Is this the same one I saw back then in Victoria BC? I once worked on an F sax, not Tiny's.. I do remember asking him about it and he called it a Metso Alto. That was by CG Conn. I recall him saying back then the thought it more of a symphonic instrument, hence in F and others in C. When the military got into saxophones, the all went Eflat and Bflat except of course C melodies more for dance bands. Anyone know if that little curved honey was Tiny Ripps horn? And how common are the F ones?

[@rezzo0404]

hi, please tell me, What is this model saxophone? I'm a beginner musician and I have it : john packer jp041 alto. Is this good saxophone? Please tell me

[@dannyflores7174]

What is the song played during the intro?

[@vivianastridge2167]

what is the width of the mezzo soprano saxophone reed tip and the bore of the mouthpiece

[@fizz5912]

Anyone know the song he played on the super small sax at the beginning of the vid?

[@kingd.baller27]

what called that small saxophone?

[@garethbacchus8133]

What’s the song he played on the first sax the tiny one

[@milkman9314]

Do you have a rothophone?

[@lefselover]

What was the song he played with the first sax?

[@olubukolafamuyiwa6576]

I think James Carter might be up there when it comes to a large collection and variety of saxophones

[@isetta4083]

what's that one that looks like a Sarrusophone in the background?

[@christ9975]

what’s the name of the song played in the beginning?

[@ronnyastudillo4203]

What’s that song in the background?

[@F0nkyNinja]

There used to be a video of some brazilian or spanish guy playing all kinds of different saxophones on stage, including one with a built in wah-wah and stuff, but it's been taken down. Anyone have it?

[@F0nkyNinja]

@@pobberson Oh wow! Thanks, I've been looking for it.

[@benjaminbell885]

What was the song at the beginning of the video?

[@bossbubsy56]

I just started playing the Alto Saxophone

[@user-pn8du6te1e]

夢のような空間 Dreamlike space

[@mrslick5904]

Gimme every type of saxophone ASAP

[@RutgersToday]

I'm not sure I can trust a person named Deathray with all those saxophones. Do you promise to only use them for good???

[@nou6990]

Soprillo Sopranino Soprano Alto Tenor Baritone Bass Contraband Subcontrabass C melody

[@RutgersToday]

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

[@mrslick5904]

All right then thanks and yes

[@ericmiller8634]

hello sir can you help me? our church just recieved an incredinle instrument and we dont know what to do with it...so we are trying to sell it.....its a genuine john coltrane sax...can you reply back to me?

[@shannonagins370]

MOLLY ON THE SHORE! 😆

[@MoodleDaNoodle]

Omg u have a king sax too?!

[@internalcyanide11s2]

Bra ma man

[@Makanalanimakamae]

Is that an ophicleide behind him in the beginning

[@pasitodrinker7890]

Haha. Rhapsody in blue.

[@cow_moo5392]

Does he/you have a soprano sax

[@plasteredpenguin]

My first sax is right now fourth grade

[@rloomis3]

I'd love to know where he gets the money to acquire all of those horns.

[@fornello123]

rloomis3 a lifetime of collecting. Assuming 1000 bucks average per horn that's only a couple hundred grand

[@rloomis3]

Hah -- "only." Some of us are lucky if we can afford one new instrument per decade.

[@carsond1733]

Tony F these instruments are all like 2k atleast magbe going up to 30k

[@fornello123]

Spelunking I guess he sells crack then

[@saxophonerman1239]

rloomis3 box tops

[@artemium1096]

I'm Clarinet and venova player, but Sax i like

[@terroristhunter5464]

He should do a video with Leo P