Saxophones A Dörfler & Jörka (D&J) Project

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Hi folks. As many of you know I have been researching and writing about D&J saxophones for over 15 years. What you may or may not know, I am in the process of completely revamping Bassic Sax into a brand new site. As such, I am revisiting the old site and updating the content already published before moving it to its new domain. Currently I am working on the Dörfler & Jörka sections of The New Bassic Sax.

What I am looking at doing is trying to catalogue as many of their stencil names, and photographs of the names engraved on the bells as I can.

Please look over the table and add any names you know of that I haven't included.
Please upload any photos you might have of name badges that show what the name engraving looks like.

If you don't know for sure if you have a D&J, feel free to post some pics and there are lots of people here besides me who will be happy to help you out.

Here is a table of the stencil names I have come up with so far

A-E
Artist #300	Boucet	Bufon	Carl Ludwig	Carl Schiller	Clinton	Conder
Convair	De Villiar	De Villiars	Diamond	Diplomat
F-K
Gebr. Alexander Mainz	H. Genet	Impala	Imperial	Jean Baptiste	John Burg Zürich	Julius Keilwerth
Kaiser	Key Tone	King Tempo
L-R
La Sete Professional	National	Original Hopf Classic	Paragon	Pierre Maure Artiste	Ravoy	Rene Dumont
Rodgers	Roxy
S
Saxmaster De Luxe	Sax-Master	Schuler	Senator	Sky	Skymaster	Skytone
SML	Star Tone	Symphonic
T-Z
Toneline Artist	U.S. Bandmaster	Unstencilled	Voss	Warner Concerto

Here are a couple of pics to get you started to help you ID the D&J horns.

• This is the most common engraving seen in the hundreds of horns I have catalogued to date.
• The 3 mountain peaks above the "badge" in which the various names are simply stencilled in.
• There are of course other engraving E.G.s as well, as well as variations on this one.

• The round thumb screw that fastens the neck is a dead give-away you are looking at a D&J.

Note 2 things. Both will ID the horn in question as a D&J and NOT a JK.

1. The round MOP--or plastic--buttons on the key guards.
2. The post shapes.

Looking forward to connecting with all you D&J folks!