Worldwidesax - Fine Vintage Saxophones

SAD SAD NEWS...early Thursday Feb 9th, 2012 Steve "Sarge" Stransky peacefully passed away after a +3 yr battle with brain cancer. If you consider he was given only 2 yrs, this was a WIN! He was in the company of Family and close Friends. It was the most joyous send-off I've ever seen with music-galore--mostly Beatles' songs. :*)  There were many tears and a TON of laughter for this amazing man with great musical talents, repair skills and a great love for people! I will miss you so much, Buddy.

Rest in Peace, my dear dear dear Friend. ~chadd

(*** Please excuse my uncharacteristically slow email reply time ***)

Pictures:

 -(Upper Left) Chadd & Steve at pizza 2-3-12

 -(Far Left) Family & Friends on Steve's final night, him singing.

 -(Near Left) Pam (wife), Steve & Chadd. Steve's final night...STILL with the biggest smile in the room. :*)

WWS lives on! Steve set me (chadd) up to keep this legacy going, allowing me to buy WWS in January 2011.

Steve Stransky - WWS Creator

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Our Work Schedule 2012:  

1-3-11 Conn Gold Artist "Harp" alto: WWS horn gets Vintage Standard Rebuild for customer. Seward Done

1-17-12 Buescher Big B Tenor: Customer horn gets Vintage Standard Rebuild with metal-backed pads and natural cork throughout. Williamson In Progress

2-1-12 SML Rev D Alto:

Customer horn gets Vintage Standard Rebuild with prestini pads and natural cork throughout, + custom key fabrication. Heine In Progress

2-28-12 The Martin Tenor:

WWS horn gets Vintage Standard Rebuild with prestini pads and natural cork throughout for customer. Gillette

3-8-12 Buffet Super Dynaction Tenor: WWS horn gets Vintage Standard Rebuild with prestini pads and natural cork throughout for customer. Croasdale

3-20-12 Conn 12M baritone:

Customer horn gets Vintage Standard Rebuild with prestini pads and natural cork throughout for customer. Tarvin

3/29--4/14/12 TIME OFF

4-16-12 SLOT OPEN

4-30-12 SLOT OPEN

5-15-12 SLOT OPEN

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 the work schedule.  We 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 its turn comes up... you send it to arrive on schedule and we return it on schedule.

  E-mail chadd 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).

NEW!

Saxophone Comparison Chart 

Some of the best vintage saxes of all time

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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.

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WE  DO GOLD AND SILVER ELECTRO-PLATING

That's right! 

We 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 

It is our business to Rebuild your sax or sell ours as Fully Rebuilt Saxes. We never sell our stock "As-Is". We are Restorers.

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 its 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:

S.M.L. Serial Numbers:

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: #104,000

1998:  #109,000

2004:  #119,000

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)

Jean Barre Artist (seen Alto)

Bundy (H&A Selmer)

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 Special: 

s/n 200xxx to 280xxx
Zephyr, "Series III": 

s/n 237xxx to 305xxx
Zephyr, "Series IV": 

s/n 305xxx to 423xxx
Zephyr, "Series V": 

s/n 423xxx to 540xxx

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

Past Work Schedule 2010:  

4-13-10  Gold Plated The Martin Soprano 64,xxx:   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  Done

6-11-10 The Martin Alto:  Done

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

6-24-10 1948 Conn 6m Naked Lady: 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. 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. Done

7-28-10 1945 The Martin Tenor:  WWS horn 153K gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild with Seamless Domed resos. WWS Done

8-5-10 Buescher Aristo "156" Tenor #338K:  Done

8-12-10 1953 SML Rev D #10K:  Chadd horn gets a Vintage Standard Rebuild with Presini pads, some Premium upgrades, minor fabrication work, and some plating restorations.  Done

8-13-10 1972 Selmer Mark VI alto #208K:  WWS horn gets a Vintage Standard Rebuild with Presini pads and natural cork throughout. WWS Done

8-27-10 1940 Conn 26M alto:  Customer horn gets a Premium Vintage Rebuild with White Roos & Seamless Flat resos. Done

9-7-10 1952 King Zephyr Alto:  WWS horn 328K gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild. WWS Done

9-23-10 Buescher Big B Tenor #322K:  WWS horn gets a Standard Buescher Rebuild with Buescher snap in pads and natural cork throughout for customer. Done

6-17-10 Silver Buescher Aristocrat #280k:  Silver plated WWS horn gets a Standard Vintage Buescher snap-in Rebuild with original metal resos.  WWS Done

10-15-10 1960s LeBlanc Rationale Tenor:  WWS horn gets a Vintage Standard Rebuild with Presini pads. Sarge/WWS Done

10-22-10 1953 SML Rev D #10K:  WWS horn gets a Vintage Standard Rebuild with Presini pads for customer. Done

10-26-10 1940 Martin Comm 2 alto:  Chadd horn gets a Vintage Standard Rebuild with Presini pads, some Premium upgrades for customer. Done

11-4-10 Buescher Aristocrat Alto #345k:  WWS horn gets a Standard Vintage Buescher snap-in Rebuild with original metal resos.  WWS Done

11-4-10 Buescher Big B Aristocrat Tenor #317k:  WWS horn gets a Standard Vintage Buescher snap-in Rebuild with original metal resos.  WWS Done

11-18-10 Silver Conn Chu alto:  Customer horn gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild with flat metal resos. Childs Done

12-2-10 Buescher Big B Aristocrat Alto:  WWS horn gets a Standard Vintage Buescher snap-in Rebuild with original metal resos.  WWS Done

12-14-10 The Martin Tenor #208k:  WWS horn gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild with flat metal resos and rivet center.  WWS Done

12-17-10 Nickel Conn Chu Tenor:  WWS horn gets a Vintage French Standard  Rebuild with plastic resos. WWS Done

    Please e-mail or phone us for   additional   descriptions or  JPEG's  of  any  of  our current  inventory,  or if  you don't   see   something   you would  like  to  have,  let  us know.
     Unlike some web shops, we will  try  to list all  of  our current inventory and prices so  you  can  see  and  shop here  in  our  virtual  store.

     We  have  a  long  list  of customers  you  can  e-mail for references. (see References Page)
    Thanks,  for  visiting Worldwide Sax.  

~~Chadd&Steve~~

Past Work 2011:  

1-1-2011 H.Couf Superba 1 Tenor:  Customer horn gets a Standard  Vintage Rebuild with Pisoni rivetless dome metal resos. Thaut  Done

1-4-11 1938 Buescher Aristocrat series 1 Tenor:  WWS horn gets a Vintage Buescher Snap-in Rebuild with natural cork throughout. WWSDone

1-19-11 1940s Buescher Aristocrat Alto:  Customer's alto neck gets pull-down repair and dents removed. Garcia Done

1-19-11 Conn "tranny" Chu alto:  WWS horn gets a Vintage Rebuild with natural cork throughout and Sherry Huntly Engraving. WWS Done

1-28-11 Conn 6m alto:  Customer horn gets a Vintage Rebuild with natural cork throughout. Harford Done

2-5-11 King Super 20 alto - pearls:  WWS horn gets a Vintage Rebuild with premuim extras. WWS Done

2-22-11 King Super 20 tenor - pearls:  Customer horn gets a Vintage Rebuild with oversized Noyak resos on Black Saxgourmet Roo pads. Atkinson Done

2-23-11 Buescher 400 Tenor 429K:  WWS horn gets a Vintage Buescher Snap In rebuild. WWS Done 

3-10-11 Conn Gold C-Soprano 98K:  WWS horn gets a rebuild for customer with silver Resotechs to be gold plated & Premium Upgrade. Gast Done 

4-7-11 King Super 20 tenor --full pearls:  Sax gets a Vintage Rebuild with premium extras and seamless flat resos. Sarge Done

4-14-11 Conn Chu tranny tenor:  Customer horn gets a Vintage Rebuild with oversized Resotech resos on Black Saxgourmet Roo pads and a Premium Upgrade and New stainless steel springs. Mattina Done

4-21-11 Buffet S-1 Tenor:  Sax gets a Vintage Rebuild with premium extras and seamless flat resos. Sarge Done

5-10-11 Vintage YAS-62 purple label:  Customer horn gets a French Standard rebuild with plastic dome resos. Tebo Done

5-13-11 Vintage Dolnet #24K:  WWS horn gets a French Standard rebuild with Flat Metal resos. WWS Done

5-19-11 Selmer Mark VI alto:  Customer horn gets a Silver Restoration with a French Standard rebuild with plastic dome resos and full Spring Replacement. Zax In Progress

6-3-11 Selmer Mark VI Tenor:  Customer horn gets a French Standard rebuild with plastic dome resos and swedging. Layer Done

6-20-11 Silver Buescher TrueTone IV Alto:  Customer horn gets a Vintage Standard rebuild with Buescher Snap In Pads. Tarvin Done

7-1-11 King Saxello customer horn gets a Vintage Standard Rebuild. Zax Done

7-15-11 Silver Conn curved Soprano: WWS horn gets a Vintage Standard Rebuild after chemical Lacquer stripping, for customer. Luchtan Done

7-29-11 Silver Conn 26M alto:  WWS horn gets Rebuilt and some much needed TLC. WWS Done

8/7/11--8/13/11 TIME OFF

8-15-11 1935 Conn 10M tenor: WWS  horn gets a Vintage Standard Rebuild for customer.

Oleru Done

8-16-11 The Martin Tenor 1953:  Customer horn gets Vintage Standard Rebuild. Neilo Done

8-29-11 King Zephyr alto:  WWS (OS) horn gets a Vintage Standard Rebuild for customer. harrson/Keller Done

9-1-11 Maintenance & School Prep 

9-10-11 Maintenance & School Prep 

9-20-11 Martin Committee II alto: Customer horn gets Vintage Standard Rebuild.Siboliban Done

10-1-11 Martin Committee I alto: Customer horn gets Vintage Standard Rebuild + a new custom screw rod. Siboliban Done

10-18-11 Martin Committee III "The Martin alto": WWS horn gets Vintage Standard Rebuild for customer. Zink Done

11-1-11 H&A Selmer Bundy Baritone: WWS horn gets Vintage Standard Rebuild for customer with domed metal resos for customer. Snowhill Done

11-13-11 Mark VI alto:  Silver Restoration Returns from Andersons. Customer horn gets a with a French Standard rebuild with Metal dome resos and full Spring Replacement with Rose Gold Plating Accents. Zax Done

12-6-11 Buescher Big B Baritone: WWS horn gets Vintage Standard Rebuild with metal-backed pads and natural cork throughout. Aaberg Done

12/22--31/11 TIME OFF

Saxophone Comparison Chart 

Some of the best vintage saxes of all time

Let me start by saying: "A Saxophone will sound like a Saxophone." That being said, at some point or another we all get that chance to be nitpicky when choosing one sax "over" another.  This is our newest creation; and strictly opinion.  If you had the chance to own any sax on this list, you are blessed.  This chart idea started because customers are always asking us to compare them all so I decided to make a rough chart.  So I'm going to take credit for this since I've been threatening to pick Sarge's brain to build this for the past few years. Here's what we've put together. Consider this page always under construction....and Enjoy! --Chadd

We believe that your first consideration should always be the sax's particular Sound Type. 

Beyond that, the rest of the components must be taken for consideration.

~ The chart is in not in a ranked order; every player has a different opinion.

~ And consider a "" to be about Average and pretty good for the average player/student.  We had to be strict to create these differences.

~ We also only focused on Alto and Tenor for now; the list could be enormous.

~ Across all models, Older serial #s are Darker in Sound

~ Sarge played more extensively on (and owns) Superba 1, Buescher Top Hat, Super 20, "The Martin"s

~ Chadd played more extensively on (and owns) Rev D, "The Martin"s

Worldwide Sax SOUND COMPARISON Archives:

Altos

New Sound File 1-2012: Altos file "Conn Early Lineage": Wonder vs Wonder II (Chu) vs 6M Naked Lady

New Sound File 8-2011: "Expensive Alto Set": Selmer Mark VI vs. King Super 20 vs. Conn 26M

New Sound File 6-2011: Conn26M(not rebuilt) vs. vintage Yamaha62 vs. Buescher BigB

New Sound File 2-11-11: Here's a new Altos file: Conn 6M "viii" vs. Couf Superba 1 vs. Mark VI

Sound File:  Here's a new Altos file: Buescher TrueTone vs. Martin Committee 2 vs. Buescher Aristocrat series 3

Sound File:  Here's a new Altos file, Chadd playing a "Conn Set": Conn Chu vs. Conn 6M(RTH) vs. Conn26M Connqueror

Sound File:  Here's a new Altos file: Buffet SDA vs King Marigaux SML vs The Martin Alto

First, Sarge playing Cool...

a Five Digit selmer mk vi, vs. a '36 zephyr, vs a SML Rev D <click here.

AND Second, Chadd playing Hot...

a Five Digit selmer mk vi, vs. a King Super 20, vs a Conn 6m(RTH) <click here.

AND Here's where I play/compare a Martin "The Martin Alto" to a King Super 20  <click here.

SOUND FILE: a 5digit Selmer mk vi, vs a Big B vs. a The Martin Alto <click here.

Tenors

New Sound File 10-2011: Tenors file: Selmer Mark VI vs Couf Superba1 vs Conn 30M 

New Sound File 8-2011: Tenors file: A WWS Silver Resto. Selmer Mark VI 5-digit #83K (Brecker era) vs Selmer Mark VI #155K Original Lac (mid-run era)

New Sound File 7-2011: Tenors file: Selmer Mark VI vs. JK Silvertone vs. Conn 10M

New Sound File 7-2011: Tenors file: Selmer Mark VI vs. JK ToneKing vs. The Martin Tenor

New Sound File 5-2011: Conn 10M vs. Buffet S-1 vs. SML Gold Medal

Sound File 4-26-11: KingZephyr343K vs. SML Gold Medal vs. KingSuper20FullPearls

New Sound File 4-22-11: Since the 1st one had so much controversy--Tenors file: Selmer Mark VI vs. SML Gold Medal vs. Conn (nickel) Chu

Sound File:  9-9-10: Here's a new Tenors file--Aristocrats series 1, 2, & 2.5: 

Buescher "Big B"1944 vs. Buescher "Big B"1940 vs. Buescher Aristocrat 1938

Sound File:  Big B parabolic vs Selmer 148k.mp3  

New Sound File: Here's a Tenors file Selmer MKVI vs. Martin Comm 2 vs. Martin Comm 3

This time, An  "A, vs. B, vs. C - French Set"  <click here  COMPARISON OF 3 FRENCH MADE TENORS

Here's Another:  This time, a Selmer mk vi, a The Martin Tenor and a Buescher 400 Top Hat

Here's Another:  This time, a comparison of a Selmer mk vi, a The Martin Tenor and a Conn 10 M

Sound File: Selmer mk vi, a The Martin Tenor and a Buescher 400 Top Hat

Video File: Selmer Mark VI vs. Buescher 400 Top Hat & Cane here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSF4WqBtNeg 

Sound File: Buescher Top Hat & Cane vs. Conn Chu vs. Olds "Super" (by martin)

Sound file: Here's a new Tenors file Mark VI_vs_SML-RevD_'41Zephyr

Sound File: Buescher Top Hat & Cane vs. Conn Chu vs. Olds "Super" (by Martin)

Sopranos

New Sound File 8-2011: Sopranos file: Conn Wonder vs. Selmer Mark VI vs. King Marigaux

New Sound File 7-2011: Sopranos file: Conn Wonder--Curved vs. Straight

Sound File 11-2010: "A vs. B": Conn 1924 Wonder vs. Buescher 1928

Sound File:  Sopranos-Martin, vs. SML, vs. King Saxello

Baritones

New Sound File 7-2011: Baritones file: "The Martin Baritone" vs Buescher Big B

New Sound File 7-2011: H.A.Selmer Bundy (Keilwerth, not rebuilt) vs. "The Martin Baritone"

Mouthpiece Comparisons:

Alto

Sound File 12-2011: Alto MPC file: Brilhart Level Air 5 vs The Woodwind vs Dukoff D7

Sound File 12-2009:  This should be fun, here are a couple ALTO mouthpiece comparisons, on a 5 digit mk vi.

Sound File: first, a Link master 4star, vs a Meyer 5, vs a Link hard rubber slant signature  

Sound File: next a Selmer S80_C star vs, a Meyer 5, vs, Berg Larson fat body  

Tenor 

Sound File 11-2011: Tenors & MPC file: 

SelmerVIvsTheMartinTenor--Dukoff D7vsOttoLink4****MasterColemanHawkinsSpecial

sound file:  9-2010: Here's a new Tenors mouthpiece file: 

Otto Link Tone Edge 9 vs. Steve Broadus NY "perfected" vs. Berg Larsen 110-2-0

Baritone

Sound File: 4-2010 A three mouthpiece comparison, for a The Martin Baritone sax.  These are all hard rubber and difference is huge, between a Yamaha 4c, a Buescher "Pickle" and a Martin Slimline

Sound File 7-2011: H.A.Selmer Bundy (Keilwerth, not rebuilt) vs. "The Martin Baritone"

                ("Ideal" hard rubber vs Yamaha 4C)

Miscellaneous Comparisons:

Sound File 8-2011: Chadd meets a Bass Sax: Tenor to Baritone to Bass