Weltklang Tenor sax

[goodsax52]

I got a Weltklang tenor sax for free from someone at my school and i dont know nething about the sax (worth, quality, etc.). If neone knows about this kind of sax, please tell me. I would like to sell this sax so i want to know more about it. Thanks.

[rsclosson]

A Weltklang. Cool! I have one. In fact I posted here some time ago about it. I didnt get as good a deal as you, but I got mine cheap. I had a hard time finding anything out about it. I know that Keilwerth made their Bari stencils, but none of the others, but there may be some connection with the old Amati horns out of Czechoslovakia. I saw some pictures of an Amati and the keywork was a dead on match!
Mine is a nickel silver horn and plays really great considering the price. I have had conversations with some like Bear at Cyber Sax and some others who gave the opinion that Weltklang tenors are pretty much an intermediate horn.
BTW, mine has a working forked Eb, a G# trill key like the old American horns and some other rather unusual features that make it cool to play. I have gigged with mine and it really sounds good for the money I paid. I would NEVER compare it to the new and vintage pro horns, but mine really does what I need. When I get a pro horn, my Weltklang will become my backup tenor.

[rsclosson]

In addition to my previous comments, the intonation is surprisingly great for such an inexpensive horn. I also think that "Weltklang" is German for "World Sound"
I sure would like to see pictures of your horn. For what you paid for it, even if it needs a total rework and setup it wouldn't hurt you.

[Dave dix]

Weltklang was manufactured in the old east german republic GDR.
Dave

[DirkThomsen]

True, "Weltklang" means "WorldSound" and the factory is lacated in Markneukirchen, Germany. Markneukirchen is located in the former German Demokratic Republic (East-Germany) next to german-tschechian border. On the other border side you find Amati (who make some of the J.Keilwerth Student ST-90 saxes) in craslize.
After the german re-union "Weltklang" changed it's branding and is now known as B&S. The new B&S pro-series horns are really good. The old "Weltklang" horns have mostly mechanism (forked Eb, G#-trill) like the old american horns. There quality is very unsteadily as raw materials were sometimes hard to get in the socialist state. So you may get a very good horn or are very bad one. I own a weltklang "soloist" baritone which plays very well. And I also owened several weltklang tenors. For pictures of my actual and previously instruments see "http://www.dirk-thomsen.de/Instrumente/".

Kind regards from Berlin, Germany,
Dirk

[nateissaxy]

I would like to see these pictures too goodsax52. This sounds like a very interesting horn to me. what other saxophones do you play?