100 Years of Selmer Clarinets

[pete]

http://www.windinstrumentshop.com/catal ... eqint4.pdf (http://www.windinstrumentshop.com/catalog_neu/images/artikel/extra_selmer/freqint4.pdf)

Well, it's from 2004 ....

[bobsax]

Very Cool
The last page gives a list of all the Selmer clarinets from Radio Improved to the Saint Louis.

I was just over at the SOTW and the clarinet search is difficult because they don't have a clarinet makes and manufactures section.

It would be ever so nice if somebody over hear that is a Selmer expert gave the rundown on all or some of the makes they are familiar with.

[SteveSklar]

Very Cool
The last page gives a list of all the Selmer clarinets from Radio Improved to the Saint Louis.

I was just over at the SOTW and the clarinet search is difficult because they don't have a clarinet makes and manufactures section.

It would be ever so nice if somebody over hear that is a Selmer expert gave the rundown on all or some of the makes they are familiar with.

Kind of like this ?
http://www.clarinetperfection.com/clsnSelmerParis.htm

[bobsax]

Hi Steve
That's an awesome page.
Great work and thanks.

I've got a P10XX A clarinet. The speaker bush is a little different and it has a small hole in the bell to sharpen the low notes. My repair man said he'd never seen one on an A clarinet.

P Series - Centered Tone series - identifiable by a large hexagonal speaker bush (the body octave hole). Benny Goodman made these instruments famous. The Centered Tone bore changed through the years. Initially it was a cylindrical bore of 15.00mm to 15.10mm. The barrel was 66mm long and had a slightly wider 15.15 bore.
After the Q series the bore changed and continued on through the Series 9. The Q series brought along the change of longer upper and lower joints of approximately 5mm.
If you click on the brochure for a full page view you will notice the options you had with these clarinets. And another interesting note - the mouthpiece in the picture is a lower emblem mouthpiece - not the oval table (which has a middle body crest emblem - see the Mouthpiece gallery for pictures of these). So .. one would assume the Ovals came AFTER the introduction of the CTs.

[SOTSDO]

Now, what about the rest of the harmony clarinets? I see data for the period up to about 1930, but nothing during the time period that I am interested in (post 1950).

[SteveSklar]

Now, what about the rest of the harmony clarinets? I see data for the period up to about 1930, but nothing during the time period that I am interested in (post 1950).

waiting for you to provide all the information and pictures Terry .....