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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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NEW
SOUND FILES:
New sound file:
5-18-10:
Here's a new Sopranos file: Sopranos-Martin,
vs. SML, vs. King Saxello
SOPRANOS
IN STOCK
    
Silver 1928-29 Buescher Bb Soprano:
(On
Consignment--Very Playable "as is") This
soprano is a 222k in good condition and
keyed to high F. It was rebuilt in the seattle area a few years ago with a
selmer style setup (plastic resonators) also
dings in the neck, difficult
to remove--See pictures. This is the later series in the
TruTones and has the roller G#(!!!...a nice feature). The previous owner
had green palm-key risers added to the high palm keys and side keys (E, C, Bb)
to have the comfort of modern sopranos. This one has a dark woody tone which is
a defining character of these
Bueschers. Tuning isn't the easiest--1920s soprano = Fair-Average--but the sound might motivate you to
try and make amends . Has original wood case, no mouthpiece. 1399.00
King Marigaux Bb Straight Soprano - Made by SML, in Paris
Serial #25786. Gold lacquer - I removed one small dent in the upper 1/3rd,
otherwise no dents at all, but lacquer is worn in many places.
A close look at this shows it has just had 95% of it's
pads replaced... the only thing wrong was only
two notes played on it, c and c#... i guess, a
novice rebuilder? I had to start all over from scratch, because the
amateur's job was sooo bad.
I just completely rebuilt it, all new prestini pads and flat metal reso's.
I almost
forgot, there's also some premium extras (G# and Octave pips/linkage...) added
at no charge. just got a very nice hard case for this too.
1999.00 Ready to Blow!
Just Arrived 3-2010 !      
MARTIN
handcraft, Gold Plated straight soprano: 1925-26, low
pitch # 64,23x. Keyed to hi F. Original
Gold over Silver Plating is Very good condition, just took one or two dings up by the palm
keys, - one by the bell that i straightened - I
will try to work anything i see out... It has all the usual things of that era,
like huge soldered on martin Tone Holes. My opinion, is that these are the
richest, deepest sounding sopranos of any model made, ever. It's filthy,
so i will dip clean her and then hand polish and finally, I will do
a "Vintage Standard" rebuild, prestini tan, waterproof lambskin pads
and classic flat metal resos's with rivet. It had no case, so I just invested in a nice Walt
Johnson case too! I'm in progress on
this one... after i get done with some resto (solder one post, add gold to 3
keys and thumbhook) and a complete rebuild, I'll price it. I just add a
new pic of the new Walt Johnson case 
Just
Finished and FOR SALE AT 2899.00
Sound file:
5-18-10:
Here's a new Sopranos file: Sopranos-Martin,
vs. SML, vs. King Saxello
King
Saxello, silver, serial # 71k.
I paid a lot for this sax and when i received it, i was pretty surprised
to find a lot of areas that had been damaged and repaired, but not
mentioned. I wasn't overly happy with the entire back side, all around the
thumbrest, near the bottom stack toneholes and some other areas. the sax
came to me with several dents and some scratches, which i did my best to remove
the
low D tonehole was damaged, then repaired. they did a good job of
getting it level so it plays fine, but they did a poor job in the cosmetic
issues... which I tried to improve on and did, but in my opinion, not enough.
the post for the bell keys was resoldered once, a cosmetically fair job, but
doing it's job just fine.
there is another area that is harder to see, on the opposite side of the low D
that is not pretty too, but as I said, it seals just fine and the sax plays
well. i don't know what happened to it, but the repairs were rough...
use of the wrong size dent ball left scratches on the inside surface, etc etc.
stuff that is hard to erase.
All of that said, it is playing very nicely, it has a beautiful lush tone that
only Saxello's have. Intonation is normal for a Saxello, which is to say,
fair to average... and the low d tonehole repair did not affect anything
soundwise. If you look over the pics well, i think you can get a feel for
the cosmetic issues, like resolders, dent removal, scratches... and weigh that
against the beautiful 24 carat gold keys and bell and find as i do, that this is
a pretty nice horn. Saxello's never go cheap and lately at ebay have fetched
4500.00 for a minty example, i am offering this one for 3200.00
giving consideration to it's current "restored, but imperfect looking"
condition. It
has just had my complete PREMIUM rebuild, with Prestini pads and flat metal
resonators on the larger keypads and plays really nice, rich fat soprano sound.
i would also be interested in trades for premium brand Vintage Pro tenors.
Here are
the pics:
  
comments
from the H.N.White website: 
The Saxello is a Bb Soprano saxophone with it's own unique form. The Saxello
was introduced in 1924-25 and had a half turned bell with curved top. The H.
N. White Company felt that the Saxello offered: improved tone, added comfort,
ease of playing and better flash. On November 2, 1926 The Saxello was Patented
becoming one of the first of many improvements made to King Saxophones.
Unfortunately, The Saxello became a victim of the cut backs of the great
depression and production stopped in the late 1930's. The Saxello was mostly
made in satin silver but there were a few made with gold plating and artist
engraving. Today top manufactures of musical instruments produce Saxello's for
many of the same reasons The H. N. White Company did.
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