Composers who were active in the Empire were, Gluck, Hayden, Mozart, Salieri, Beethoven, Dvorak, Smetana, Fucik, Janacek, Schubert, Weber, Liszt, Brahms and Mahler. The Empire had 50,000,000 citizens with its capital Vienna and a vibrant musical tradition. From 1526, Bohemia was a province of the Hapsburg Empire, (also known after 1867 as the Austro-Hungarian Empire). Prior to Czechoslovakian independence in 1919, the region was a German speaking area of North West Bohemia. From that date on, production of musical instruments of all types flourished in the area. A violin maker’s guild was established there in 1669, and was the start of over 300 years of musical instrument making tradition in Kraslice. One of the most important areas for the production of musical instruments in the world is the area in and around Kraslice in the now Czech Republic.
#Keilwerth tenor sax about full#
I used the online Google translation service for the translation from German to English.įinally, I take full responsibility for the content of this article, and I invite corrections and improvements where they are required. I especially want to thank Klaus Dapper ( and Klaus Schneider ( their websites provided the basis for this article. I do believe that Amati’s line of saxophones and instruments deserve a fair consideration from Canadian and American consumers. I admit my Czech-Canadian heritage and that I am a bit of a ‘shill’ for the Amati brand. I will leave it to some scholar in the future to write the definitive history, with names, details and facts that I have not included in this short summary. My goal is to provide some insight in the evolution and revolutions that have taken place to result in the Amati-Denak company of today. The instrument makers were directly impacted by European wars of the Twentieth Century, Nazi and Soviet expansionism and the Cold War.
The history of saxophones and other instruments produced by the predecessors of Amati-Denak is complex, confusing and convoluted. The opinions in this article are the author’s and I reprint it here without any edits.
#Keilwerth tenor sax about professional#
The student range is ST90, the intermediate range is EX90, and the professional ranges are SX90, CX90 and SX90R.This 2008 article has been reprinted in whole with the permission of its author, Dennis Gazarek. Keilwerth also sell saxophone for other levels of ability. There are different types of saxophone that give different sounds. The standard saxophone is tuned in B♭ and E♭. Keilwerth saxophones that are made for orchestral music are tuned in C and F. The reed mouthpiece and the brass material sets it aside from any other instrument in either the wind section or brass section. The saxophone they sell range from soprano to bass.Ī saxophone is similar to the bassoon, flute, cornetand tubaas it has a conical bore. The instruments created are of the best quality, both physically and sound quality.
Keilwerth are renowned for the stencil they engrave into each saxophone they make. The Julius Keilwerth Company, often referred to as Keilwerth, is a German based company who have been specifically making saxophones since 1925. It was designed to be the most powerful wind instrument and the most versatile of the brass instruments. This is due to the fact that a saxophone has a single reed mouthpiece, similar to a clarinet. A saxophone is part of the woodwindfamily, even though it is made of brass.