{"id":24413,"date":"2011-03-24T09:25:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T16:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=24413"},"modified":"2024-05-17T09:43:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T16:43:56","slug":"hopf-a-dorfler-jorka-stencil-name-that-we-havent-seen-before-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2011\/hopf-a-dorfler-jorka-stencil-name-that-we-havent-seen-before-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopf: A D\u00f6rfler & J\u00f6rka Stencil Name That We Haven’t Seen Before Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning I happened to come across yet another D\u00f6rfler & J\u00f6rka stencil name that hadn’t been attributed to them before. A seller from the UK currently has a tenor saxophone listed which is engraved<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Original
\nHopf
\nT
\nClassic<\/p>\n

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     Source: eBay.com<\/h6>\n

No amount of Googling could get me any definitive information on what company named Hopf, might have ordered stencil saxophones from D\u00f6rfler & J\u00f6rka. There is a Hopf guitar company in Germany that has been a family run business for 300 years. They currently also sell all the various voices of recorders, so perhaps in the 1950s the company had a brief foray into saxophones?<\/p>\n

In any event, this silver plated D&J-made sax appears to be in decent condition, and comes with a relatively new contoured case\u2014which is much more protective than the original one ever was. (Trust me. I speak from experience here.)<\/p>\n

This is what the seller writes about this vintage Keilwerth, clone horn:<\/p>\n

1950’S VINTAGE TENOR SAX. ORIGINAL SILVER LACQUER.<\/p>\n

NAMED AS A HOPF CLASSIC, SERIAL NO. 8747, MADE IN GERMANY.<\/p>\n

RECENTLY OVERHAULED AT WOODWIND EXCHANGE, BRADFORD.<\/p>\n

THOUGHT TO BE A DORFLER & JORKA DESIGN BASED ON THE KEILWERTH NEW KING.<\/p>\n

NO DENTS BUT FEW SLIGHT PENCIL POINT DINGS.<\/p>\n

BLOWS IN THAT DARK, SOLID KEILWERTH TONE.<\/p>\n

COMES WITH HARNESS, HR MPC, REEDS, SHAPED CASE AND STAND<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In this photo you can see the D&J thumb screw used to hold the neck in the socket. This automatically tells us with 95% certainty what we’re looking at.<\/p>\n

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     Source: eBay.com<\/h6>\n

Here you can see the large mother of pearl buttons that decorate the key guards. That together with the key guard and key shapes, add another 2% to our total of surety that this is indeed a D&J horn.<\/p>\n

Compare the photo below to that of my De Villiers<\/a>. Other than mine being a lacquer horn, there are virtually no differences. (The connecting brace between the low B and Bb keys is the only visible difference.)<\/p>\n

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     Source: eBay.com<\/h6>\n

The metal clothes guard and the shape of the right thumb hook adds yet another 2% to our total, so we’re now at 99% certainty that this is a D\u00f6rfler & J\u00f6rka saxophone. Here is this same section on my D&J-made De Villiers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although it’s a little tough to make out in this photo, the left thumb rest is mother of pearl, and the octave lever is tear dropped shaped. This is what it looks like<\/a>. That’s our last percent. We can now say with 100% certainty that this is indeed a D&J horn.<\/p>\n

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     Source: eBay.com<\/h6>\n

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     Source: eBay.com<\/h6>\n

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     Source: eBay.com<\/h6>\n

If you are interested in reading more about D\u00f6rfler & J\u00f6rka saxophones, and their long, and rather very complicated history with J. Keilwerth, check out the D&J page on the main portion of my site.<\/a> I just updated the page 2 days ago, and there are now more comparative photos there, as well as some new information.<\/p>\n

The auction for this particular D&J tenor runs until March 26. Bids are to start at \u00a3550.00\u2014which eBay estimates to be $893.48 US. At the time of writing no one had bid on this vintage Hopf tenor yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning I happened to come across yet another D\u00f6rfler & J\u00f6rka stencil name that hadn’t been attributed to them before. A seller from the UK currently …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[220],"tags":[665,660,151,644,218,198,643,31],"class_list":["post-24413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dorfler-jorka","tag-dorfler-jorka","tag-ebay","tag-german-saxophones","tag-photos","tag-stencil-horn","tag-stencil-saxophone","tag-vintage-horns","tag-vintage-sax"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t