It’s hard to believe that it was just a mere 3 weeks ago that I published my last article here in the Bassic Sax Blog, announcing that I had published previously unknown information on the Superba I & II bass saxophones built for H. Couf by the Julius Keilwerth company in Germany. As summer 2025 draws to a conclusion, I have opted for the comfort of air conditioning during the day in order to finish the long-overdue H. Couf saxophone pages.
The Superba I & II soprano page has been completely redone, is now much more complete, and consistent with the rest of the H. Couf horn descriptions. Also finished, are the Superba I & II baritone pages.
These pages add A LOT to the body of knowledge for vintage and stencil saxophones in general, as well as Keilwerth—and arguably their most-successful stencil—in particular.
Couf saxophones were, and remain to this day, one of the most popular vintage saxophones in the marketplace. However, when I got my first Couf—the Blackgold low A bari in Oct. 2018—there was very little concrete information available. Even normally knowledgeable vintage sax dealers seemed stymied by the total lack of fact-based research in the area.
This led me to jokingly saying to Paul Maslin: Give me a year or so. I’ll have the brand researched and written up for my site. Little did I know I would end up down a rabbit hole of Excel spreadsheets with reams of datapoints on each model for 5 voices of horns. What was I thinking? 
Although the main H. Couf page was finished in a year, it took years to gather enough data; collate that data; and finally write it all up into these new pages that I am pleased to announce today are finally available online.
What’s Next?
One thing that all this data collation has shown me is that there were some errors and omissions in the original, main H. Couf page. So here’s the workplan for the remainder of the summer:
Write up the Superba I & II bass saxophone page.DoneUpdate the Superba I & II soprano page.Done- Completely redo the H. Couf main page so it resembles the new pages in navigation and style; update its contents; and add the new content I have.
Get the Superba I & II baritone pages done.Done
I have some backend stuff on the server to get fixed up. Once that is sorted out, I will get to work on #3 and finally be able to say that the H. Couf section is finished. I’ll provide an update here on the Bassic Sax Blog when the Bassic Sax Website is completed.
