JW York

[pete]

Generally used stencils, but there was a website dedicated to them:

The J.W. York Company Research Site.

Note: the above link is through archive.org. The website that's there is no longer maintained because the gentleman that ran it died in 2003.

 

[Steve]

Mr. Swain passed away? .. RIP

I contacted him years ago when I was looking into the history of York instruments - more specifically the link to the Martin brothers as, if i recall, some of the York saxes had soldered on toneholes such as the Martin saxes did. I don't recall if it was the same martin family or not with the saxes though

 

[J.Max]

Mr. Swain passed away? .. RIP

I contacted him years ago when I was looking into the history of York instruments - more specifically the link to the Martin brothers as, if i recall, some of the York saxes had soldered on toneholes such as the Martin saxes did. I don't recall if it was the same martin family or not with the saxes though

It would make sense. A lot of the York horns I've seen appear to be Martin stencils. (A lot are Conns too.)

 

[pete]

I've seen one or two actual York made saxophones (curved sops) and they had a lot of Buescher-look to them.

But, when Mr. Buescher left to do his own thang for a couple years, he also got stencils from Martin.