Odd German sax

[russps]

I had a Weiss Superior tenor sax come in the shop today. "Made in Germany" was stamped on the neck reciever. Rolled tone holes, G# trill, resopads (might not be original), articulated bell keys (Seperate lever and key, like on 12M baris), screw on guards with a hole for a felt holder, but the felt holder was on the actual key, nickel plated keys, and the strangest octave mechanism I've ever seen. It had 2 pips on the body, with a roller on the G key where it contacted the octave mechanism. It also had a strange neck screw, but I don't think I could type a description. I will post pictures in the near future.

Dos anyone have any ideas on who made it?

Russ

[singlereed]

Never heard of that one, but it was Weltklang, Kohlert and Keilwerth who were the German stencil kings.

[russps]

I was looking around on some websites to find any info I could on this horn. I can't find anything that looks like it, but the Rene Dumont alto on http://www.worldwidesax.com has a similar type of neck screw (goes straight into the reciever (but not like a martin where the screw was on the neck). I forgot to mention, the serian number is 033xx.

Russ