Hi all! Long time member and recently returned poster.
I am looking for some information on old King Soprano saxes, ideally from the 20's and 30's. I had made some posts about this particular model several years ago but they seem to have been lost in the board change over. Anyway, my understanding was that based on the serial number, it was an S6 model straight bell, silver plated soprano with gold lacquer on the bell. Unfortunately that gold lacquer wore off long before I ever owned it. I am trying to identify the year it was made, and where I can find replacement spring pins since the original one's are so old that they could snap at any moment. I'd like to get it back into original condition as much as possible, it has had a full pad rework done on it, but I'd love to get it all stripped down and polished, maybe even get the gold lacquer put back on the bell. It is such a great sounding horn that needs some TLC, and any information on these horns would be great. I'd love to play it in a band situation but the intonation is really out of whack as the horn sat in a crappy old case for god knows, probably decades, with only support on the bell and neck, so it bowed in the middle and now sounds flat. But the tone, if I could get it restored to original playing condition, which shouldn't be much since it has new pads, you wouldn't hear one like it, as it's so warm and dark thanks to the silver body.
I am looking for some information on old King Soprano saxes, ideally from the 20's and 30's. I had made some posts about this particular model several years ago but they seem to have been lost in the board change over. Anyway, my understanding was that based on the serial number, it was an S6 model straight bell, silver plated soprano with gold lacquer on the bell. Unfortunately that gold lacquer wore off long before I ever owned it. I am trying to identify the year it was made, and where I can find replacement spring pins since the original one's are so old that they could snap at any moment. I'd like to get it back into original condition as much as possible, it has had a full pad rework done on it, but I'd love to get it all stripped down and polished, maybe even get the gold lacquer put back on the bell. It is such a great sounding horn that needs some TLC, and any information on these horns would be great. I'd love to play it in a band situation but the intonation is really out of whack as the horn sat in a crappy old case for god knows, probably decades, with only support on the bell and neck, so it bowed in the middle and now sounds flat. But the tone, if I could get it restored to original playing condition, which shouldn't be much since it has new pads, you wouldn't hear one like it, as it's so warm and dark thanks to the silver body.