Sandy Brown Jazz Album Reviews 2017 [The links on this page were correct when the item was included - please contact us if you find that any of them are no longer. Charles Gerard Conn was the patriarch of musical instrument manufacturing in Elkhart, Indiana and a pioneer in the music industry. In 1873, C.G. Conn developed a.
Soldered tone holes on a 1947 The New King alto saxophone. Source: wws.com However not everything changed radically. The famous, with an inverted triangle replacing. What’s In A Name?
Something To Go To Court Over In the early 1950s, a legal battle flared about who had the right to use the name Toneking. Amati claimed that they also had the right to use it, since they were the legal successor to the name.
(After their takeover of the Keilwerth company in Graslitz.) Not only did Amati use the name Toneking, they also used the Keilwerth logo, as well as Keilwerth serial numbers—as evidenced by this Amati-made Toneking baritone, serial #30390. Source: tclaw99 on eBay.com It took until 1955, for the European Court of Justice in The Haag to rule that Julius Keilwerth was the only one who could legally use the Toneking name.
Visual Studio 2013 Product Key Change. The disputes between Keilwerth and Amati soon ended, and animosities were evidently forgotten, since in the 1960s, J.K. Cooperated again with its Czech competitor. However, for a period of 10 years (1945-1955) there were saxophones produced by both J.K. And Amati, that carried the Toneking name. Therefore if you’re looking for a vintage Toneking, you have to be careful what it is you’re buying. Keilwerth and Armstrong At the time when Armstrong was the distributor for Keilwerth in the US, and Keilwerth for Armstrong in Germany, all the necks for J.K. Horns were produced by Armstrong, because they were superior to what Keilwerth was making.
The Armstrong necks were cut from brass, soldered, and then corrected through hydraulic inflation, to be within a 1/10 mm range. This ensured that all the necks were identical. Only when the partnership with Armstrong ended, did J.K. Start producing its own saxophone necks again.
Nauheim-Made J.K. Models In 2003, Gerhard Keilwerth (Julius’ grandson) spoke to Uwe Ladwig about the differences in Post WWII Julius Keilwerth horns. According to Gerhard, these were the distinguishing features of the different models.¹ • The intermediate model—The New King without a high F# key—had rolled tone holes until the 1960s.
Production of The New King continued until the end of the 1960s. Toneking Exclusive Tenor Serial #: 90667, circa 1986. Source: saxpics.com The Beauty Of The Angel Wing The year was 1951, and the Julius Keilwerth Saxophone company filed an application with the German patent office for a radical new type of key guard.
This key guard was made out of “Plexiglas oder anderen Kunststoffen” (Plexiglas or other plastics). This plastic key guard, or angel wing as it would come to be known, was to provide a one-piece replacement for the multiple wire or sheet metal guards that protected the low Bb, B, and C keys.
The angel wing further added protection to the low C# key—. This is one of the diagrams from Keilwerth’s original patent application: Although the patent was granted in August 1952, we know that the Plexiglas key guards were not without their problems. While these guards certainly looked striking. Toneking 3000 saxophone-shaped trumpet. Source: quinntheeskimo Vintage Horns on eBay.com Very simply put, the Toneking 3000 was a saxophone-shaped trumpet. This was in no way a new idea, since a number of companies had already developed single and double-belled, sax-shaped trumpets in the early part of the 20th century. That said, the Toneking 3000 was a real oddity, and was very difficult to play due to its shape.