I would stick with the yamaha recommendation, very good quality control, excellent ergonomics and intonation. At $1500 a 2nd hand YAS 62 is achievable which is a very good instrument used by some professionals, although always with 2nd hand get somebody who knows what they are looking at to go over it. They asre also very versatile, classical, band, jazz or rock can work depending on mouthpiece, reed and the player. With the improvement in the $A the prices of these new have fallen to < $2400 which is outstanding value. There are other cheaper Yamahas but at that price point, that would be my recommendation.
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