Posted by Paul Scott on February 26, 2004 at 09:35:55:
In Reply to: martin sousaphone posted by carol on February 26, 2004 at 06:50:51:
You can also find the serial # on the bell collar (if the sousa bell is original to the body of the instrument. The best serial # chart I've seen is on a website called the Sax Gourmet. There's also a site you can find if you search "Martin Handcraft"-another sax site but it has a lot of Martin info.
They're great horns-if it's silver plate your inner bell may still be gold plate if someone hasn't buffed it off. I'm sort of a Martin nut so I just had to reply!