If you’re curious about the Julius Keilwerth company, I have a couple of pages dedicated to it on my website. At the time of writing there were no bids yet on this interesting axe. If you are interested in making this vintage Julius Keilwerth tenor sax part of your stable, you have until August 8 to do so. This is where the JK logo should appear, and where the serial would be engraved.īased on the horn’s build however, I suspect that this vintage Julius Keilwerth tenor sax was made in Graslitz. Unfortunately the seller didn’t provide a photo of the region below the right thumb rest. Here are the remainder of the photos of the vintage Julius Keilwerth tenor sax… This eBay horn does though look remarkably similar to this unknown serial number King tenor, that Gerhard Keilwerth sold on eBay a few years back. The third might have as well, but the photos are just too small, and too crappy to be able to make out such details. At least 2 out of the 3 horns that I have seen to date, appear to have bevelled tone holes. The horns that come closest-at least in the tone hole department-are the Modell Lus, which are a sub-model of the King. The result? Nothing that looks exactly like this vintage Julius Keilwerth tenor. I poured through all the various models that Pete had originally uploaded to Saxpics, and also compared this horn to the various old JK horns that I have in Bassic Sax Pix. The left and right pinkie keys however, are typical Keilwerth though… (The latter were designed by Max Keilwerth.) This type of tone hole is usually associated with Martin, and early Hohner President saxophones. The engraving on other side of the bell offers no clue as to the model either.Īlso, note that this sax doesn’t have JK’s usual rolled tone holes, but rather bevelled ones. It comes in a nice case but with no mouthpiece. The instrument may need some adjustment and cleaning. The golden color is partly a bit worn, the pads looks ok, Im sure they will work for some more time.

The bell reads:”Julius Keilwerth” The table reads: “Keilwerth”. This is how the seller describes the horn on the UK eBay site: A quick look at the bell engraving suggests it’s not that model.Īs a matter of fact, according to the seller, there’s no model name engraved on the bell at all.

My immediate thinking was: “It must be a King”. Do you fashion yourself an armchair detective? Do you like delving into saxophone mysteries from the past? Well if you do, then this vintage Julius Keilwerth tenor sax on the UK eBay site, might just be the thing that floats your boat.Ī member of the Cafe Saxophone forum started a thread about this rather mysterious sax yesterday, and asked if anyone could help ID the horn.

Julius keilwerth soprano saxophone