Worldwidesax - Fine Vintage Saxophones

Worldwidesax.com is a Saxophone repair shop that also buys, completely rebuilds and resells Vintage Professional Saxophones only.  Customers can see and hear what we have available at this website. (by appointment only).  We are not a "music store".     

click here for answers about rebuild pricing questions, or for our location or payment info.  We are located in WA state,  twenty minutes north of Seattle, WWS  business hours are Pacific time.

We don't accept credit cards in the shop, but you can use your credit card to pay through Pay Pal...  just log into your account and use the  "send money"  tab to make your deposit,  or payment, to worldwidesax@verizon.net     Please add a note in the message area, that states what it's for, with serial or other description, if possible.

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Below are the links to the various pages of the site, link access changes as you visit other pages, if you get stuck, use your back button to come back to the home page and click around  again.

If you wish to schedule a rebuild, or purchase one of our saxes (and it still needs to be rebuilt),  send us  a 50% deposit to hold your place in my work schedule.  I work from a published schedule (see left margin) so that your sax will only be out of your possession a couple weeks, while i do the actual work, it does not have to just sit on the shop floor, until it's turn comes up... you send it to arrive on schedule and we return it on schedule.

  E-mail "the sarge" with  questions about our vintage saxes at:   worldwidesax@gmail.com  

 Click the links above  to see what's in stock.   If  a horns says "just rebuilt", then it's ready to go, saxes that say "scheduled for a rebuild" are waiting for the work to be done, but it will be included in the posted price.  If a sax says "ON TRIAL" someone is taking advantage of our "Three Day Trial" policy (See Info and Orders page).

Here is a pic of some custom resonator work.  We can size the reso to your tonehole, or whatever you like.

We can get you virtually any resonator made, my favorite is the  Resotech solid silver reso.

Check out our new page all about relacquers 

NEW!

WE DO GOLD AND SILVER ELECTRO-PLATING

That's right, we now have a:

 GOLD STAR Pro plating system

The Industry's Premier Silver and Gold Plating System 
 Ask about having us Plate your Bell interior in 24 carat or  ROSE GOLD 

Our Work Schedule 2010:  

4-13-10  Gold Plated The Martin Soprano 64,xxx:  WWS horn gets a Vintage Standard Rebuild WWS Done

4-18-10 Silver The Martin Tenor 184K "USMC":  Done

5-7-10 Buffet SDA Alto 18K:  Done

5-14-10 Armstrong Low A Baritone: Done

5-25-10 Conn 10M:   Done

5-28-10 Martin Committee 2 Alto: WWS Done

6-1-10 J. Keilwerth 1934 New King Alto:  Nickle plated WWS horn gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild with flat metal resos. WWS Done

6-11-10 The Martin Alto:  WWS horn gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild with flat metal resos. WWS Done

6-17-10 Silver Buescher Big B:  Silver plated WWS horn gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild with flat metal resos for customer. Burnham Done

6-24-10 1948 Conn 6m Naked Lady:  a Chadd horn #327K gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild with flat metal resos and black Saxgourmet pads. Chadd Done

7-2-10 Buescher 400 Tenor #505K:  WWS horn gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild with Prestini rivetless dome metal resos. WWS Done

7-8-10 1928 Silver Conn Chu Alto:  Customer horn gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild with flat metal resos. Gowin DONE

7-20-10 King Super 20 Alto #415K:  WWS horn gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild with flat metal resos. WWS Done

7-28-10 Conn 6m:  customer horn gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild with flat metal resos. Nordquist In Progress

7-28-10 11945 The Martin Tenor:  WWS horn 153K gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild with Seamless Domed resos. WWS In Progress

If you wish to schedule a rebuild, or purchase one of our saxes and it still needs to be rebuilt,  send us  a 50% deposit and we will schedule it's rebuild before any of our other worldwidesax.com inventory. 

Everybody loves these new Kangaroo skin pads, aka Saxgourmet  Pads and you can get them from Curt, at musicmedic.com you can request that any WWS stock be rebuilt with them, or just click this link and order some for yourself.

Hard to find:

Here is a helpful outline of SML serial Numbers:

Serial Number / Year

0001 – 3000  / 1934 to 1940

3000 – 5500 / 1940 to 1945

5500 – 8000 / 1945 to 1950

8000 – 12000 / 1950 to 1955

12000 – 16000 / 1955 to 1960

16000 – 19000 / 1960 to 1965

22000 – 24000 / 1970 to 1975

24000 – 26000 / 1975 to 1980

Here is a helpful outline of Keilwerth serial Numbers:

Keilwerth Serial Numbers:

1925: 0-800 

1933-5:  9000 

1941: 18,500

1947: #20,000

1953: #23,000

1958: #28,000

1960: #38,000

1962: #43,000

1964: #49,000

1966:  #55,000

1971: #69,000

1978: #79,000

1986: #91,000

1993. #99,100

1996. #104,00

1998:  #109,000

Keilwerth made The New King and Tone King  as their main brand names, from 1932 to 1969 or so, but there were always stencils, like Edgeware and later Couf.  Here are few of the other names you may find on Keilwerth made horns.  The new king and tone king saxes were identical except for a high F# key on the tone king model, but keilwerth marketed the Tone King as the "deluxe" Pro model and the New King as the "standard" Pro model

Known Keilwerth Stencils:

Couf Superba 1 & 2

 Royalist

Conn DJH

Buffet

Edgeware

Marco

Vincent Albert

Martelle

Winsall

Tam

Bundy Special

Armstrong

Heritage

King Tempo

Champion

Calvert Deluxe

Silvertone

Hammerschmidt (sopranos)

Keilwerth copiers, such as Amati,  Dörfler & Jörka (1949 to 1968, then purchased by Keilwerth) and B&S

H.Genet

Roxy

Jubilee

Voss

Silvertone

Rene Dumont

Keilwerth relatives:

Max Keilwerth and Richard Keilwerth (Graslitz) made saxes under the names:

Weltklang (baritones only)

Senator

Hohner

Here is a handy chart for King zephyr series:

Zephyr and Zephyr Special
Zephyr, "Series I": s/n 170xxx to 180xxx
Zephyr, "Series II": s/n 180xxx to 237xxx
Zephyr, "Series III": s/n 237xxx to 305xxx
Zephyr, "Series IV": s/n 305xxx to 423xxx
Zephyr, "Series V": s/n 423xxx to 540xxx
Zephyr Special: s/n 200xxx to 280xxx

1945 was the beginning of King's  Super 20's (s/n 272xxx)
and Zephyr "II"s (s/n 272xxx)

IN STOCK: 

  The Martin Baritone Bari:   Serial number 204xxx with matching neck.  It's a 1958 and it's if good shape overall,  just a few of the usual bumps and scratches that baris always seem to get.   (one replaced keyguard has been lost,  we have fabricated an exact replacement)   80+% Original Lacquer, a few bigger dents and a flat section on the bottom of the bow you can see in the pic (also one small keyguard leg dent, already fixed) only one smallish dent in the neck curl, it's a miracle!  The Martin horns are famous for a BIG warm sound with rich low notes.   Comes in the original hard shell case in fair condition.   I will do a "French Standard" rebuild, but substitute large flat metal reso's, for the selmer style plastic ones (aka vintage standard rebuild).   2700.00  READY TO GO! here are 3 "After" pics of this horn 

Silver Buescher Aristocrat Big "B" Bari:   (On Consignment from Chadd Berry) Serial number 349,xxx with original neck.  It's a 1954-55 and it's had a busy life and gained all the usual bumps and scratches that baris always seem to get.  Aside from the huge "B", there's also a very well done inscription near the bottom of the bell "Bd. of Ed.  N.Y.C. 1955" {Board of Education New York City 1955}.   PICTURES TELL THE TRANSFORMATION STORY.  90+% Original Silver plate--body is Satin with shiny keys and a Gold wash bell, a few bigger dents near the bottom of the bow that we worked back out.  Also we removed some larger dents from the neck.  A few patches are on the neck...they were done well but we decided to finish the work and satin silver them to match the body. 1.5 keyguards have been lost [low Eb, half of low B],  we fabricated exact replacements and silver plated them to match. Also put in dome replacements for 2 snaps.  The Big B Baris have a warm focused sound like the other models(tenor/alto).  This bari has an incredible low end, a warm resonance that don't cut through like a rock sound. (It was much fuller than The Martin Baritone we have here.)  Probably perfect for adding to a big band blend, small ensemble, or concert band.  Comes in the original hard shell case in good condition.  We even decided to redo the Goldwash bell.    I will do a Buescher snap in rebuild with metal backed pads AND a premium upgrade with teflon and ultraswede AND re-Gold the bell (a +$1800 value rebuild). All included for:   3600.00  READY TO GO! ***A Gig-Tested and Head-Turning Sax.***