World Wide Sax: Fine vintage saxophones.

There are a few more sound samples around the website near their respective sax descriptions.

Playing sax is so much more personal than something like piano or drums... you have to play, yes, practice too, but you also have to work to make your particular sound... unlike piano or drums or similar instruments, it involves a technique (embouchure, wind control, reading, and controlling the instrument) Then, it also means that you have to decide how you want to play, jazz, blues, new orleans dixie, etc. Most people decide on a sound and a style, or genre. To get that sound, you will need the right tools. the tools are a mouthpiece (and there are over a hundred designs/tonal shades) and a saxophone (also a lot of designs, ergonomics and sounds). Each sax will shade you to the sound you like best, for your personal taste. i have my favorite sound, but it might be different that what you prefer... ok, now i'm getting to my point, the only way i can help point you in the right direction, is if you can help me help you.
usually, people find one or two sax hero's (fathead newman, ben webster, etc) and decide that their favorite sound and style is similar to one of their heroes. We can help you sound like the legends by pairing the right sax and mouthpiece.

so, the ball is in your court. if you say john coltrane is closest to your favorite, we find you a old florida era otto link and a selmer mk vi. that said, sometimes people don't want to sound like anyone else... they want to pick three famous horns and try them, to see what sound they get and like. we can usually help with that too (for locals, they can play them in person, for out of the area players, we record them with state of the art equipment and email a sample mp3 of each horn)

I have been lucky to make many friends and am blessed with more business than one man can handle... because of that, i always have a long waiting list, so i have come up with a system that works. i have a work queue... people who want work done send me a 50% deposit to have their work added to the queue. Then when their turn comes up, they ship the horn to arrive a couple days before work is scheduled to start. the queue is posted on the left margin of my website pages and is updated weekly. Doing it this way, your sax only has to be out of your possession a couple weeks.

My "Work Schedule" consists of Chadd Berry and i, doing one rebuild every 10 days... and some of those will be WWS horns that are going to customers. So, i'm not real speedy and i really don't want to have other people sub my work for me, or enlarge the shop and have different workers doing different levels of work. Beside from doing the restoration work, there is the time consumed by "running the business" and answering the phone, that never stops ringing, so i hope my system can keep my customers happy.

I will always be just as available as i have been for the last ten years and always happy to help, with the best customer service i can muster... If you are patient and like my style, then by all means let me do my best, for you.

Sorry, we prefer not to sell our WWS stock horns in "as is" condition. If we get it and it's not "near new", we will automatically completely rebuild it, in time. Also, do to the busy schedule we keep, we don't have time to do P/C work ( that is... pad repairs on your horns, we always squeeze in time to keep WWS horns in great shape for our previous customers) It's a small 2 man shop and we are always super busy.

Shipping a Soprano or Alto (and some tenors with smallish cases) to Europe via USPS about 160.00, Shipping bigger horns via UPS/Fedex/DHL, about $372.57 alto, $456.89 tenor, 525.00 Bari

One of the most common questions I get asked is, "How do I get to reserve a spot in your work schedule, or how long until a WWS stock horn gets rebuilt? The best plan I have been able to devise, is a Deposit System. Work, on almost anything, gets scheduled right away when I receive a deposit for the work (or sax) you have interest in. Email me and ask about what interests you, then we can discuss my next schedule opening, see if it works for you... and how to get me the deposit that makes the wheels roll.

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WorldWideSax
E-mail "the sarge" & chadd with questions about our vintage saxes at:

worldwidesax@gmail.com

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