VEB Blechblas- und Signal-Instrumenten-Fabrik made their simpler Weltklang saxophones starting in the early 1960s. Check out the Blechblas- und Signal-Instrumenten-Fabrik gallery on Bassic Sax Pix to find more names, and see some of the horns I ve found to date. Some of these names include: Akustik, Roth, Berg Larsen, Paul Beuscher, University, Sonora, and many, many others. In addition to the names that B S used for its horns, they also stencilled for other companies, which resulted in a great many B S-made horns, with a wide variety of names.
The company offered basically only 2 model ranges of saxophones: The simpler Weltklang engraved horns, and the somewhat better saxes designated B S. Source: ī S only made the 4 standard types of saxophones: Bb soprano, Eb alto, Bb tenor, and Eb baritone saxophones. The iconic blue label on a Blue Label B S tenor, serial 1014. If you are interested in which those were, and when they were added, check out the VEB intro page of my site. A further four companies were added at different times, until in 1984, a total of seven VEBs were under the B S umbrella. This process of nationalizing private companies had been going on steadily since WWII, and on January 1, 1953, three existing VEBs were combined together to form Blechblas- und Signal-Instrumenten-Fabrik B S.
These publicly owned, national corporations were known as Volkseigener Betriebe VEB, and were the legal form of an industrial enterprise in East Germany. Government policy was to nationalize these private companies, and combine them together into organizational units called Kombinate. The political reality for private companies in the DDR, and the creation of B SĪs already noted on the Akustik and Weltklang pages, post WWII, independent companies were no longer the norm in East Germany. Just click the Back button on your browser to bring you back to this set of boxes. To aid in navigation, I ve added some links here for you to the various sections of this page. If you search for information on these vintage horns by VEB Blechblas- und Signal-Instrumenten-Fabrik, you are far more likely to come across articles and forum comments about the Weltklang, or even the Akustik saxes, than you are about the vintage B S blue label saxophones.
It is pretty uncommon to have more information available on a company s less expensive instruments, than on their better ones, but such is the case with the B S, AKA blue label saxophones.
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