Keilwerth SX90R NS - Pitch & Altissimo

Dealing with the Keilwerth altissimo. Is it actually flat up there? Yes and no.

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• Keilwerth
• Saxophone
• Altissimo
• SX90R

[Vapor419]

Is the camera mirrored or is that a lefty saxophone???

[ClickRec]

@Vapor419 - Haha! Mirror image. Best wishes - John

[MasterBlasterRGR]

Which one do you like better? Selmer Ref 36 OR K-werth

[ClickRec]

@MasterBlasterRGR - Flip a coin, very different but both great. I had a Ref 36 for a while and really liked it. Scale-wise it's not as precise as the Keilwerth but jazz-wise it's not as "loose" as an SBA. Ref 36 ergonomics are more comfortable than the JK. But the JK is a beast in its own way. Like a 10M with modern mechanics. Also, I've never played a more in-tune horn than a modern JK. Esp ser# 120xxx and higher. Ref 36 might have a more all-purpose appeal. Just my opinion.

[proSpiritofTruth]

@ClickRec I really admire your attitude and common sense approach to everything making difficult things simple rather than vice versa. However, I would like to know what you have tried in saxophones at the top and what you are looking for. If you have more than one tenor saxophone I assume that money is no problem in playing the sax you most like. So have you tried the Selmer Paris Super Action 80 Series III A64 solid sterling silver tenor? My approach is more like the strings. There is only two

[ClickRec]

@proSpiritofTruth I have more than one sax because I bought them over the last 35+ years. I don't have a lot of money and do have to sell off a horn or two from time to time. But never the SBA or the SX90NS. I never tried a silver Series 3 but played a brass Series 3 and thought it was great. Thank you for commenting. Best wishes - John

[proSpiritofTruth]

@ClickRec by tuning one's body cavities to the mouthipece and saxophone with long notes and heaps of chromiatic scales on a regulare basis, one can get the edge of King Curtis with the polish of Plas Johnson, bothBerg Larsen players with extra wide tip openings on an open chamber like a preBabbitt rod rubber Hite or a pre Babbitt (bell metal) SupetoneOtto Link tenor mouthpiece especially using Vandoren Java 2.5s or a rare good Rico Royal 2.5. I have recently changed after forty years to Vandoren

[proSpiritofTruth]

@ClickRec which David Hite himself suggested I do when he was not able to do it himself in 1994, but when I got back to him in 2003 shortly before he died he put me on to Ralph Morgan who had been facing another Australain's solid sterling silver mouthpieces,BrendanTibbs, however,sadly Ralph too passed away in 006 but by then he had shared much invaluable knowledg with me. Spin casting in sterling silver in the thick body design of a Hite or Meyer rod rubber is the best for hard core to the tone

[proSpiritofTruth]

@Click Rec contd so the intermediate answer for me was to get a solid sterling silver tenor in a design with the best ergonomics I have seen so far, polish the inside bore and gold plate the inside bore. I received it on 22nd December, 2010 and it absolutely creams myKingSuper20 Silversonic s/n 719736 which I had the body and neck so silver plated that it is just as thick today as in1979, and a wash of gold on the inside of the s/s bell. I have a spun cast solid sterling silver vintage J&D Hite

[proSpiritofTruth]

@ClickRec contd wonders, say on solid gold or platinum flutes filling great musiic halls.I have heard one myself live and it is unbelieveable and understandable why they have paid US$100,000 for decades.The same player could never do that on even a solid sterling silver flute. However, the much thicker wooden flutes are as superior texture wise as teh solid gold or platinum flutes are for harmic order in increased complexity resulting in room filling ambience and unbelieveable projection cont

[proSpiritofTruth]

@proSpiritofTruth contd choices as I understand it, at the top, Stradivarius or Guernarius. Why? Because they simply are streets ahead in providing the best instrument for reflecting the wishes of the best players. As I see it, on tenor sax especially, there are really mainly two competing facors artistically, resonance and harmonic richness/complexity. Solid sterling silver conducts the best for resonance and gold or platinum of all elements on the periodic table is the only materials that does