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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.
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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
26000
– 27000 / 1980 to 1982
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)
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I get a
few request per year for C-Melody saxes, tenor style, alto style and soprano
style. I am going to make an effort to find one of each, nice ones... and
offer them here. I don't recommend c-melodies for beginners, they are best
enjoyed by experienced players, wishing to use them for Dixieland, or early
vintage music. These will not be smelly old junkers, but rather carefully
selected, rare horns, that I will only offer totally rebuilt. Prices are
"including rebuild". Enjoy!
    
C.G.
Conn, Silver Plate C Melody "Tenor": Made
about 1918-19, Serial # 4486x. Silver plate finish is original and is over
80% intact, with much tarnish. I plan to hand polish it and restore any missing
silver. The body is in excellent condition, with one small dent on the back
of the body tube near the neck-strap hook, and one small dent on the bow, which
i will remove, and no signs of repair. The neck is in very good
condition, no dents, no signs of repair. The Original white kid pads
are still in it. The unaltered C mouthpiece and ligature are included, i'm
not sure what brand it is, or if it's original. The replacement case is in very good condition.
I shined the neck and bell, you can see just how long it has sat without a
cleaning, but it's in great shape, all keys move just fine. I plan a Standard Vintage Style
rebuild and it will sell for 1250.00.
   
C.G. Conn, Silver Plate C Melody "Tenor": Made
about 1920, Serial # 6027x. Silver plate finish is original and is over
99% intact, with much tarnish. I plan to hand polish it to it's original
shine. The body is in excellent condition, no dents i saw and no signs of repair. The neck is in very good
condition, no dents, no signs of repair. no mouthpiece, no case with
this one. I plan a Standard Vintage Style
rebuild and it will sell for 1250.00.
     1922
Silver, C G
Conn C Melody "Alto". Perhaps the most requested of all c melodies,
the Conn straight neck, or alto style sax. Original Silver
plating is very good, upwards of 90% . The palm key spatulas have worn through
the plating as you can see in some pictures, so to make her really cherry, i'm
going to restore the silver on those. Serial # in the 99k range, makes her
a 1922. I need to remove a few minor dents but no major damage ever.
Original tunable neck works great. Original Mouthpiece comes with the sax.
It has just had a complete rebuild, pads installed are as original with the
original Conn rings and original style premium white leather. This is
going to play as close to original style as you will ever get. Original
case is lost to decay, so it will come in a slightly oversized new saxbag.
999.00
    
1920 Gold Plate, C G
Conn C Melody "Alto" in GOLD PLATE:
Another of the most requested of all c melodies,
the Conn straight neck, or alto style sax.
Serial # 61,2xx, low pitch, A=440hz. This is a very nice, hard to
find Satin and burnished Gold Plate C-Mel "Alto". Original Gold
plating is very good, upwards of 90% . The palm key spatulas have worn through
the plating as you can see in some pictures, so to make her really cherry, i'm
going to restore the silver/gold on those. There are small spots, like by
the RH thumbhook that are thin too, but don't look bad at all (See pics, there
are darker areas and lighter areas, typical of an original plated horn of this
era). It has just had a complete French style rebuild,
no original case, it comes with a new bag. 1799.00
Ready to go
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