LUDWIG PIANO SERIAL NUMBER LOOKUP UPDATE
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That would put this sax in the 4th or 5th year or 1940/41.Д®BIC was not absorbed by Buescher in 1937. Thus a straight line production estimate is about 1400 instruments per year. It also assumes a restart in 1948 with the Elkhart BIC restart. To try to narrow a bit further, It looks like the R serials were used for about 18 years, This assumes Windsor was shut down during WWII (1942-1945) and not affected by the Korean War. Therefore this sax was likely produced between 19. So far it is looking like the Windsor serials may have integrated into the main Buescher line in the 370,000's or about 1960/61. The R serials represents the older models and so far the highest I have recorded are in the high 25000's. The trademark is registered with the USPTO. Windsor was a line of the Elkhart Band Instrument Co, subsidiary of Buescher introduced in 1937. The R serial number and the potential timing of the sax would indicate that it is a Windsor stencil. Pictures would have been very helpful on this one.

LUDWIG PIANO SERIAL NUMBER LOOKUP UPDATE

While a few years late, I though I would add a possible update to this as I have been studying the Windsor line for some time now: But, none-the-less, this is the history of your saxophone. Today, the store looks as modern as ever and has nothing to do with band instruments.

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The store is a mega piano store with colored pianos displayed in glass windows visible from Interstate 70 as you drive by. You would never know of the early history if you walked into the store today. They moved to their current location in Earth City Missouri in 1989 and again changed names to the Ludwig Aeolian Piano Superstore in 2006. In 1970, Ludwig Music House absorbed the Aeolian Company of Missouri and changed its name to Ludwig Aeolian. It would have been an exciting time to live in the city of St. In the 1940's Grand and Gravois was a high traffic location and the largest bus and transfer point in St. The introduction of piano sales was accopanied by the opening of a second store at Grand and Gravois, which is actually located about about a mile south of my house and on they way between my house and my shop (Saxquest - about a mile east on Cherokee Street). The intorduction of pianos was probably a long over-due venture initiated as a way of diversifying in response to Hunleth Music Store taking over as the hub for band & orchestral instruments in St. In 1939 Ludwig Music House began to introduce pianos which its existing company (Ludwig Aeolian Piano Superstore) is now known for exclusively. If you could post a few photos here that would be most interesting. They also carried Conn and Buescher so this instrument would have filled a slightly lower price point gap for them. Ludwig used the word standard to imply that this was a company instrument targeted for the amateur player or the musician on a budget. For example the Martin Standard was introduced as a lower price point saxophone to the Martin Imperial in 1934. The word 'standard', in reference to band instruments, at that time, generally meant a lower price option. Your saxophone was most likely produced in the 1920's or 1930' when Ludwig was at its height for saxophone and other band instrument distribution. Louis began to compete in a big way for the local band and orchestral musician. Hunleth Music Store (established in 1901) located in downtown St. This continued thru the 1940's at which time the J. At this time they were stencilling saxophones from both Conn and Buescher. The business blossomed under his leadership and road the wave of the 'jazz age' into the early 1920's. Louis musical scene and was one of those kind of guys who 'everyone liked'. This turned out to be a very good move for the company as Grohe was extremely well respected in the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904 and the business was sold to Charles Grohe, who was a business partner with Alex. Alex and his wife, both great musicians in their own right, retired shortly after the St. All of the Vaudeville musicians knew of the place and it began to obtain a national presence. Louis city at 514 Walnut just west and south of the famous Eads Bridge (the first bridge to span the Mississippi River).Д«y the 1910's they were the place to go in St. Louis for band & orchestra instruments after the turn of the century. Established in 1876 by Alex Ludwig, Ludwig Music House started out slowly, but became a huge deal in St. Louis and I'm a saxophone historian, I can speak with a bit of authority on the subject. Let me start by giving you a bit of history about Ludwig in St. Its most likely a Conn or Buescher stencil from the 1920's. This is actually a very cool saxophone from a local historical perspective.

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