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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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Caution: Watch out for SCAMS,
listed at Craigs List, for these saxes or any others from my website. People
can steal these pics and try to use them to scam you. No
horns on this page are for sale at WWS, or EBAY!!!.
Supreme Sax
Artistry: Conn Virtuoso Deluxe, King Artist Deluxe, more
This page is really a continuation of
our Finest works page, but i wanted to feature two of the most rare beautiful
horns ever available, The Conn Virtuoso Deluxe and the
King "Artist" (King De Luxe) below:
Here is what Peter
Hale, from Vintage sax pics has to say about the Conn:
Conn decided to go
all out in opalescence on these horns, indicative of the world before the 1929
stock market crash: heavy gold plated horns that have mother-of-pearl inlaid
(not riveted like the King Zephyr Special or early Super 20/Silversonic) into
the altissimo keys, G# cluster, low C/Eb, chromatic F# and all the RH side keys
(Bb, chromatic C and altissimo vent). Just this feature alone qualifies these
horns as some of the most elaborate ever made.
Conn took another
step further, however: these horns have elaborate engraving, sometimes over the
horn's entire body AND keys. The engraving is extremely beautiful and detailed,
generally showing a portrait or a small scene.
Photography
has been one of my hobbies, for some 30 years... my intention here is simply to exhibit
pics of a beautiful sax, nothing else. I have never found a comprehensive exhibit
of pics of these gorgeous horns anywhere on the web, so it's my pleasure to host
them. This is a customers sax. It is not for sale. don't
ask. In order to assure these large and detailed pics don't end up as
another scam at ebay, I have to brand them, sorry but it's the reality of the
world we live in...
Before i get to the pics, if you have
something to add, email me at worldwidesax@gmail.com
and i will edit and include relevant comments.
Now i'm going to exhibit
the best pics i could take, of the beautiful Silver and Gold Plated, hand
burnished, heavily engraved Conn, that i had the pleasure of working on:
the files below are a little large, i wanted to show the detail in the
engraving work...
Of course i did a vintage style rebuild on this, tan medium soft pads and
smallish flat metal resonators.
I'm curious if anyone out there has this same engraving of "the
girls" or if it's a one of a kind...
That's all for the
Conn Virtuoso... Next up, tune in again for Kings effort to top
Conn's Virtuoso!
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One of our
great customers, who goes by the handle Midnitesax,
has a fine collection of rare horns and has had several really exquisite horns rebuilt here,
he has even taken a few before
and after pics too, but first up is the King Deluxe we just finished for him a
couple months ago:
first a couple before
pics
Now the after pics, note how intricate the engravings are:
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of the most beautiful and hard to find tenors, we have ever worked on... |
an
original Gold
Plated,
Conn
"Chu Berry, Art Deco,
Tranny era" model:
it came to us
absolutely filthy, tarnished and neglected, for what appeared to be 5
decades. here is a before pic, or two...
This one belongs to
Midnitesax too and he wanted to do something really special for the rebuild, so
i ordered up some light gray 'Roo Pads and some of Resotech's solid silver
resonators and when they arrived i gold plated them to match the sax...
Of course this one got a complete Premium
Rebuild and we
finished off her look with black felt and black Ultrasuede throughout.
  
1922 C G
Conn C Melody "Alto" Artist model in GOLD PLATE:
Another of the most requested of all c melodies,
the Conn straight neck, or alto style sax.
Serial # 929xx, low pitch, A=440hz. This is a very nice, hard to
find burnished Gold Plate, Artist Model C-Mel "Alto".
This sax has the Full Naked Lady standing on a swan in a pond with water lillies
and flower petals. She
is also standing on a five sided star surrounding the pond.
Under it is the Conn Logo
surrounded by flowers over the face of the Greek God Pan.
The balance of the bell is engraved in ornate plumes and designs.
I have never seen such beautiful engraving on a C melody
Original Gold
plating is very good, upwards of 95% . The palm key spatulas have worn through
the plating as you can see in some pictures, so to make her really cherry, we restored the silver/gold on those.
SOLD to a happy customer 7-1-2009
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