Soldered tone holes on a 1947 The New King alto saxophone. Source: wws.comHowever not everything changed radically. The famous, with an inverted triangle replacing.What’s In A Name? Something To Go To Court OverIn 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.comIt 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.The disputes between Keilwerth and Amati soon ended, and animosities were evidently forgotten, since in the 1960s, J.K.
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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 ArmstrongAt 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. ModelsIn 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.comThe Beauty Of The Angel WingThe 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.comVery 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. They had a limited market, and production soon stopped.There are some discrepancies in the dates provided for the manufacturing of these trumpets.
According the website, the Toneking 3000 was built between 1982 -1986, with no more than 100 instruments produced. However, according to Uwe Ladwig, the Toneking 3000 was built in the 1970s.Given that Keilwerth focused solely on saxophones in the 1980s, I tend to believe Uwe. It’s possible that the author of The Jazzophone website has a simple typo on his site. In any event, The Toneking 3000 is really more of a collector’s item, than a performer’s horn.1979 Catalogue Of J.K.
InstrumentsA regular visitor to my site sent me. I am in the process of digitizing all the pages.If you like perusing through old instrument pamphlets and catalogues, I suspect you’ll like this. (Yes, it’s in German. Yes, translations are coming.)The Last Decade Of A Family Owned And Operated Saxophone DynastyThe 1980s saw the Julius Keilwerth company return to its roots, and offer nothing but saxophones again. It would be the last decade of the Toneking and its variants, and 1989 would see the company’s production and name rights sold to Boosey & Hawkes.Serial Number & Pictures Of Keilwerth HornsThe absolute best serial number chart that I have found for Julius Keilwerth saxophones, is on. They recently redid their site, and haven’t redirected their old pages.For photos of J.K. Horns, I would suggest either, or Pete’s new site,.
If you know of any other good J.K. (BTW, in light of what I’ve just written, I realize I have a number of errors in my J.K. Gallery that I have to correct.)¹ Source: Uwe’s discussion with Gerhard Keilwerth on May 26, 2003.The source of the majority of information for this page is from Uwe Ladwig, in der deutschen Fachzeitschrift—German music journal— SONIC sax & brass.I would like to thank Uwe for so generously allowing me to use his research, and very much appreciate the trust he has shown by allowing me to do my own translation.
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