8 years later.
@Steve! Did you get your soprano saxophone and was it everything you expected.?
Yes, I have it, and still have it.
It's totally awesome playing (when I actually play it).
Before the SA80 I had an Antigua 582 LQ that was hand selected by Dave Kessler (I think I sold it to
@Gandalfe for his son ??). It was great keywork and easy playing. A friend of mine sent me his Antigua 582 LQ which was 95% of what mine was. Keywork was a bit more sloppy and you can see that Antigua started cutting corners quite quickly (within a year) of the great press they had when they originally released the 582 LQ.
But the Selmer, being a Selmer, is a Selmer with the mystique in the tone and everything else. Of course the Antigua was a bit better keywork as it was based on a Yanigasawa, but not as sturdy.
Previously to that SA80 & 582 LQ I bought a SA80 from a music store in Tennessee or some place. The body tube was bent. It kinda looked that was in the pictures but lenses can make things look curved. But I recall as soon as receiving it the body certainly looked bent to me, and putting a weighted string through it you can see the bend of it. I think there's pictures here or on SOTW. I was able to send it back and the music store was perturbed as it's return wondering why a bent body tube was a problem. I recall seeing an SA80 over the years with a bent body tube passing thru hands until some repairer fixed it.
But I recall a music display at school (University of Michigan) in the ballroom of the Union which had the SA80 sopranos and all their other instruments. I wanted my own sop as before that in high school I always borrowed one normally a Couf Superba. I was able to fiddle with the SA80 sop and from that point on always wanted one. So that was 1985ish ... so it took a few years but I finally got my SA80 soprano.