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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 In Progress

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

2-15-12 The Martin Tenor:

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

3-1-12 Buffet Super Dynaction Tenor: WWS horn gets Vintage Standard Rebuild with prestini pads and natural cork throughout for customer. Croasdale

3-15-12 SLOT OPEN

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

4-16-12 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).

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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

12/22--31/11 TIME OFF

World Wide Sax is located in

Everett ,  WA   98201   U.S.A.

Email us for directions or call us first.     

We are open for business  T, Th, F   Saturdays, Sunday & Monday's off  

10:00-5:00 PST.     Pacific time ONLY if you call!  

We REALLY prefer emails, but chadd is more likely to pick up the phone :)

 WorldwideSax@gmail.com 

360-631-0943 (cell) Chadd

425-secret-- (cell) Sarge

How to find us in Everett: 

We are at the intersection of California St. and Baker St.  A few blocks East of the main drag, Broadway.  If you are coming from the South, It's easiest to take the (Downtown Everett) I-5 Pacific St / City Center. Exit (Exit 193), turn left onto Pacific and go to Fulton.  Turn right there and follow it to California St, then turn left and go to Baker.  

If you are coming from the North, then take the Everett Av / Hwy 2 (Exit 194) and turn right onto Everett Av, go to Baker, turn left and look for California St. 

For the map oriented, see below:

  

That's about 6-8 blocks folks, don't go too far.

Worldwide Sax was created by Steve Stransky in 1998. After several years in Seattle, we reestablished ourselves in 2000  in Everett ( 20 minutes north of Seattle).  In January 2011 WWS was sold to Chadd Berry, Steve's apprentice. Pam and Steve still live in the house on the corner and are almost always home; and  I too live nearby and will make my best efforts to help appointments.  

People often say, "oh, I expected it to be a big retail store downtown, or something"... Uh uh, this is my repair shop.  I have a lot of great horns, and most of them are waiting for me to rebuild them, but you are welcome to try out anything I have (but only at 2-3 horns per visit...that the rules folks, i don't make 'em...no wait, i do make 'em).  Call first.  We will endeavor to have all the saxes that are rebuilt on display, ready to play and the rest are in the loft above the shop, if you want to see the "before rebuild" horn.

INFO AND ORDERS

  All our Saxes have a 3 day trial period, with a money back guarantee, less shipping and handling charges.  Same applies for mouthpieces.  Ebay auctions do not have a trial period, as all auctions are final, "lay a ways" do not  have a trial period, but we do guarantee the product to be as described.

How it works:  You must pay for the sax and shipping (your choice of shipping, as you pay for it) in advance, then we ship it to you.  Once you receive it you have three days to play it and decide if you love it, or want to return it.  You must let me know via email or phone, by the third days end, or it is sold.  if you decide to return it,  it must be packaged same as it was received and shipped back on the fourth day (or sooner).  As soon as it is received here, you will be refunded all but your shipping and any paypal , etc. fees, and our small handling fee (See below) asap.  Deposits received for pending sales to customers, of our WWS stock, are not refundable.  

How else does the 3 day trial return work?  we can't just " rent" (send a horn out, with a check for surety) horns for a weekend for free ( it happens way more often than people think).  So, at this time we will have a  "25.00 for a handling fee" policy on any return and then the Per-Day late fee added ($10, $15, $5...etc) for returning late, UNLESS a sale is made sometime later, for any horn.

Please e-mail  with any product questions or call:

10:00 - 5:00 pst Tue, Wed, Thur, Fri, Sat.

Get to know your Techs:

Steve "sarge" Stransky:     Ok, i get hundreds of emails, asking "Why Sarge?"... although I was in the service, my Sarge nickname came years later, (when I was in one of my favorite road bands) from my very good friend Hugo Taylor.  He tagged me with it and it has stuck for some 23 years.

       worldwidesax is  your resource for Vintage Saxophones and Mouthpieces on the world wide web.  We are vintage saxophone specialists and have a lot of experience with all makes and models of vintage horns.  Not many shops can boast rebuilding or restoring about 100 Vintage horns every year... we can.  Our goal is to bring you the widest possible selection, display as many as we can with accurate, quality pictures and descriptions and guarantee what we sell, to be as we describe it or your money back.  I created Worldwidesax to reach out and fulfill the needs of players all over the world and have succeeded in doing just that, in 23 countries so far.

     I use a combination of time honored traditional methods, as shown to me by a great retired local repairman who worked at the Conn factory, as well as a few other talented local repairmen who showed me some of the latest techniques, like custom pad jobs and  Teflon friction reduction.

Freshly rebuilt Vintage saxes are still the best buy on the market today. They play great and sound wonderful, and in each and every case, you have been listening to the great Jazz players of the 1920's-1960's on vintage saxes.  You can own many vintage professional horns for about the same price as a current student model.  The next time a salesman tells you intonation is bad, or you can't finger like, or sound like a pro on a vintage horn, ask him what he thinks the greatest players of all time all played on... 

That's the worldwidesax story...  As for me, I started playing Alto Sax in 1961, in the 5th grade,  and along the way I picked up blues harp, guitar/bass, keyboards, drums and Lead Vocals.  I turned pro right out of high school, in '69, then after over 10 years of road life I started to play part of the time and teach the other part... Then some more years of road life, finally in '85 I took a job as manager at Kennelly Keys Music's largest store, where I sold new and vintage instruments and had a little repair bench in back for 7 years.  I worked on everything, horns, guitars, violins, you name it, if it had to be fixed now, I fixed it.   I think this helped me to think creatively about repairs and to improvise.  I take pride in my work and also my work ethic and scheduling, you can count on me to finish on time.

    My musician and road buddies all call me Sarge, my older friends call me Steve, i answer to both.  i love music and the music life... i know what you have to deal with...  pro or hobbyist,  i've done it too.

thanks, steve.

Chadd is the #2 chair here at WWS, has been doing all phases of repair since June 2008  

In 2010 I officially started my own business, "Only Saxophones", that carries a small stock, but wide array, from the many trusted student models to intermediates and even pro/vintage In 2010 I officially started my own business, "Only Saxophones", that carries a small stock, but wide array, from the many trusted student models to intermediates and even pro/vintage horns.  (This is all with Sarge's good graces of course!) Currently listed at:  www.onlysaxophones.vpweb.com I got started with my business under Sarge's help but its inception was driven by the need for local students to have a trusted instrument brand to own rather than a no-name sax cheap "instrument". You will see a few of Only Saxophones' horns For Sale on the WWS site and you can rest assured that I will rebuild them to Sarge's standards and they will play great for a long time.  I feel blessed to be taught by one of the best.  Sarge has passed on great techniques and I find myself agreeing to his unofficial motto..."I like to take my time even though some shops that can rush through it but let me make it perfect even if it takes a little longer. Everyone wants it to be perfect."  OR my all-time favorite: "There's no law against owning more than one!"   (I soon after bought a my SML Rev-D alto & love it!)

In January of 2011, it was my pleasure to begin my purchase of World Wide Sax!  Sarge had graciously allowed me to continue the business as it's always been...but put me "in charge", so to speak. He's continued to be a part of it all since that day and I can best explain it like this: "Sarge is still here, the shop runs like it always has--He just gets to do whatever he wants now!"  haha.  It's a great gig for him as he slips into retirement but still being a part of his grand creation. I feel lucky that he has endorsed me with the trust of his baby--WWS.  Thanks buddy, it has been an honor to continue to learn it all from you.

I hope to serve your rebuild/restoration needs in the future.

Chadd Berry  

1947 The Martin Tenor

1955 SML rev D Alto

1924 Conn Wonder Soprano

We do not have a credit card machine in the shop.  (to save you money!)

We can offer you these options:

We have received dozens of International Bank Wire Transfers as well and can email you our bank info, so that you can transfer a deposit.  

Of course checks and cash are always accepted, but if you wish to pay by credit card, it has to be done online through Paypal.

They accept more than just ebay purchases, they allow you to send money to anyone.  They have good reviews,  we have used them many times and they give the best rates.