Conn-Selmer · Student · AS500
Look up Selmer and you'll find two different makers. Henri Selmer Paris builds professional saxophones in France, and its own site warns that the Selmer-branded horns from Conn-Selmer, the American company that also distributes Paris instruments, aren't made in France and shouldn't be confused with them. The AS500 is one of those American-brand horns, a student alto sold under the Selmer name with an Aristocrat badge. After Selmer's owners dropped the US-built Bundy line in the years after 1995, its student woodwinds came from Asian factories, and AS500s on the used market are stamped Taiwan. Selmer designed the AS500 around young hands and school use. It has nickel-plated keys for durability, a high F# key, an adjustable thumb rest, a guide that protects the right-hand trill key rods, and an octave key pin set flush with the neck receiver so it isn't damaged when a student forgets the end plug. WorldWideSax, a vintage sax shop that has sold several, calls it great for kids, with stronger nickel keys and very easy ergonomics, and good for pep and marching band too.
A solid first alto for a middle schooler, with a high F# key the YAS-26 doesn't have. Make sure the listing says AS500 and Selmer USA or Conn-Selmer, not Selmer Paris, so you know which horn you're getting.
Build and caseAS500
Conn-Selmer publishes serial tables for several of its brands but none for Selmer USA saxophones, so the serial won't give you a year. Don't run it through a Selmer Paris chart, which only covers horns made in France.
Student horns like this see heavy school use, so expect dried or sticky pads, dings on the body and bow, and the odd bent post or key. The flush octave pin was Selmer's answer to the classic break, a pin bent when the horn is stored without its end plug.
More on this in our saxophone buying guide.
Buying guide
For a first alto we'd buy the AS500 titled just serviced and plays great at $650 with free shipping from a US repair seller, or a complete one with case and mouthpiece for about $500 delivered plus a shop check-up. There are at least 25 for sale, almost all in the US, and most complete ones ask $500–900 delivered. It's a Taiwan-made student horn sold under the Selmer USA name, not a Selmer Paris, so skip the asks over $1,000, like the $1,847 one titled Student and the $2,096 zero-feedback one with $95.88 shipping, a known scam pattern. School horns like this see heavy use, so ask for a video playing down to low B-flat and zoom in on the pads in the photos.
$349.99est. delivered
The lowest delivered AS500 here at $350, from a 99.6% seller, and the photo shows it in its case with the neck and a mouthpiece. The title makes no condition claim, so ask for a low-note video and plan on a shop check-up.
Selmer as500 alto saxophone RM
$499.50est. delivered
Titled with the case, mouthpiece, cap and ligature plus accessories, so nothing is missing, at $500 delivered from a 100% seller, the bottom of the band. There's no service claim, so budget for a check-up.
Selmer AS500 Alto Saxophone +Case Mouthpiece Cap and Ligature + Accessories
$650.00delivered
Titled just serviced and plays great by a US sax repair seller, at $650 with free shipping and inside the band. The title doesn't list the case or mouthpiece, so confirm both before you buy.
Selmer USA AS500 Aristocrat Alto Saxophone - Just Serviced - Plays Great (184xx)
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Used$349.99est. delivered
$299.99 + $50.00 shipping
Buy It Now$299.99
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Good buy
Case, neck and mouthpiece in the photo. No condition claim.
Seller: onlymonthrufriday
99.6% positive
Used$499.50est. delivered
$475.00 + $24.50 shipping
Buy It Now$475.00
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Good buy
Case, mouthpiece, cap and ligature titled.
Seller: ilovetoads14
100% positive
Serviced$650.00delivered
$650.00 · free shipping
Buy It Now$650.00
Good buy
Titled just serviced and plays great. Free shipping.
Seller: northeastsax
99.6% positive
Used$412.98est. delivered
$370.00 + $42.98 shipping
Buy It Now$370.00
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Our take
Titled hand engraved, with case. Under the band.
Seller: be-672365
100% positive
Used$692.98est. delivered
$650.00 + $42.98 shipping
Buy It Now$650.00
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Titled with case. Inside the band.
Seller: paul-andremde-0
100% positive
Serviced$750.00delivered
$750.00 · free shipping
Buy It Now$750.00
Our take
Titled serviced and plays great, $100 more than the same seller's other one.
Seller: northeastsax
99.6% positive
Used$514.08est. delivered
$500.00 + $14.08 shipping
Buy It Now$500.00
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Zero-feedback seller, with the same title as another account's listing.
Seller: thetexascardshark
No feedback yet
Used$2,095.88est. delivered
$2,000.00 + $95.88 shipping
Buy It Now$2,000.00
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Priced high
Zero feedback and $95.88 shipping, at about 3.1 times the median.
Seller: p-yakg8
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