Restoring the King Zephyr Baritone Saxophone- part 2- tools, techniques, play test adjustments
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- Опубликовано: 17 июл 2024
- In this episode, making final adjustments on the King bari sax including play testing techniques, tool making, key setups, and more.
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Extraordinarily educational. I don't know of any other channel that is so good at passing on tech knowledge. Knowledge is power, and those who are the best at sharing it should be the most acclaimed of our heroes.
Thanks very much
It’s really great to actually HEAR the instruments. I’d love it if you had playing examples in every video!
New subscriber here! im a middle school band director always dealing with broken instruments in a low income school, I LOVED ALL your videos they are amazing and very insightful. Would love to see a video going more tutorially into pad regulation on both stacks, as well as clarinet upper stack, specifically the roll up A key. Thank you so much!
Thanks for having this channel!! These skills are incredibly valuable.
Mr Lee, these are some of the most enjoyable videos I've seen. THANK YOU.
You are a magician. Amazing results. You always give extra and it shows
This was great. Near and dear to me as I have one of these horns from the 50's that was in very bad shape and restored. Amazing horns with a giant tone.
Good repairman! I'm impressed!
Impressive work Mr. Lee! You are a fine technician. New subscriber to your channel. Binge watching and loving them all. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I’m a 30 yr career machinist and brass horn player. Much respect sir!
Thank you Mr Lee for the video. great!👍
as you said,it's a very delicate painstaking.
time consuming work.
Restoring the King Zephyr Baritone Saxophone👍👍
Wes you never stop amazing me. I'm a sax student but before to buy the new Cannonball Vintage reborn tenor, I had several old instruments that tried to fix them. From my viewpoint I did a great job but always issues still delaying me on a better learning, now I can see how deep a repair must be done and the tools, a lot of knowledge needed that you're free sharing. txs a lot.
Thank you Mr Lee for the video. I have one year ago made a restoration of a King Zephyr Bari Sax from 1959 and I can say its a beautiful instrument with a great sound with my old meyer mouthpiese.
That’s awesome! They sure honk and splang!
I was playing saxophones for 30 year and also played a tube in C for almost 10 years... Now I'm out of that and I miss it... I love Saxs, no doubt. Seeing your video felt what I felt when I was 6 yo and started to play a King tall sax (I'm not sure what is the name in English, sorry) It was so old and I hated it... but now I think about that and... it was amazing piece of metal. It only needed just a little of love. Thank you for your video. I feel so nice now after watching it.
Great! Your passion for your craft is inspiring! I live in Copenhagen, Denmark. And the guys and soon
a woman have that same passion. And they are all excellent players. Just fascinating!
Great video Wes! Keep em coming!
Thanks for watching
my dad played the Bari and Bass Saxes in big bands back in the day. pretty cool video
Thanks Wes.
I play guitar but I subscribed I would like to hear the instrument everytime you done a job
Interesante video... y muy buenos consejos. En éste tipo de especialidad no solo hay que saber de música con sus tonos y bemoles.... también hay que tener un buen oído. --- Saludos Wesley, desde España.
Sounds great! I enjoyed the tool part of the video. I recently bought a 1970s Buescher 400 baritone. I find the low B flat key to be difficult. Too hard and too small for my old pinky. Maybe in the future you will have something related to this problem? Thanks
Thanks for watching. On your bari, are the bell keys on left side or modern right side? The long levers on the old left side, people would make those springs so stiff that your pinky could barely close. I haven’t delivered this bari yet, I’ll try and do a quick demo today.
That is some horn!
Wow great video! I just found your channel. Question for you: at the beginning you talked about taking the slop out of the linkages. If those posts are loose on the rods the rotate around, how do you take care of that?
I have a Selmer USA low A bari (my left pinky is super strong…), and when I first got it, I got it cheap because it didn’t play right below a low D. Turned out to be that G# key lifting! Replaced a single piece of felt, good to go. I’m also an engineer (amateur sax player…), so I’m geeking out on all your custom tools! Very nice. Wish you were closer to NY haha!
These are amazing videos. Love your work. Im looking to patch few hairline cracks on my buddy's tuba. Im looing to find some of the materials I'd need to do it. What kind of solder do you use and where can I find the material to use as a patch?
Thanks for watching. If you are going to make patches, then you can use from a donor body, or a hobby store has sheet brass, nickel silver, etc.for reasonable price.
If I am doing a drop fill method, then I use low temp silver solder, otherwise I use standard 60/40. Flux I use is Sta-Clean.
Hi wes love your work ...i have a question...when you resurface tone holes do you put anything on the bare brass to keep them from tarnishing....thanks a million
I may have missed it, but roughly when would that one have been built?
Hello Mr. Lee great video! I bought a King Zephyr, but unfortunately it didn't come with a neck. The neck that this sax uses is a double socket neck. Do you know where I can buy one or have it custom made? I would really appreciate your help. Thank you
Hey thanks for watching! There is a fella in the UK making them. Shoot me an email to WesLeeMusic@gmail and I’ll get you some more information.
What mouthpiece was that? Do the Zephyrs require a large chamber mouthpiece like the old Conns do?
I played a Zephyr in high school.
Another good show. Thanks for the insight. Stay warm. It is cold here in Houston too. Coldest since 1989. Where is that global warming we hear tell of?
Thanks for watching. Stay warm! It’s getting to be a mess.
Good night l live in Guyana and will be migrating to your country soon l repair saxophones and I also play don't be surprised if one day l approach you for a job
Horn looks and sounds good. I prefer the older bari sax with the bigger and wider bell then the modern skinny bell with the low A on it.Many moons ago Iused to play an Waterloo music brand called Academy made by keilwerth of Germany. Great sounding horn nice and full. School horn ,,had the choice between the conn or the academy. And I choose the academy. Conn tome didn’t sound nice .. Bye the way if you see old Academy,super Academy or just Waterloo stamped on the horns including woodwinds they where manufactured for The biggest music stores in Waterloo,Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 . No longer in business,closed about twenty years ago. Back in the seventies and mid eighties they use to refurbish/ relaquer instruments also. They also gave that up in the late eighties due to environmental issues and equipment, and personnel.
Thanks for watching. I just love the old horns. Thanks for the history on those horns, I’ll sure to be on lookout.