HI there, my son has inherited one of my Grandfathers clarinets (will be his first step up from a student clarinet). Unfortunately Granddad is now gone, but he played at very high level in Britain, and taught for decades in Australia over an entire lifetime of music.
It needs a bit of servicing, but it still plays, but corks are loose and some of the pads a bit dried out.
We think its a 1973 Selmer Paris 10s, but keen to ID it.
Serial is x8384 - does this chart show that X6400 was the first in 1973 and therefore ours is in this series? http://users.speakeasy.net/~granlund/selmer_clarinet-serials.html
Why does it have 2 barrels?
We will never sell this, my son (is 12yo) and is keen to play it for now. But is it worth having it restored to former glory, or just get it serviced and leave the imperfections on the wood/silver?
4 pics of it here http://1drv.ms/1Rqo34A
Thanks
It needs a bit of servicing, but it still plays, but corks are loose and some of the pads a bit dried out.
We think its a 1973 Selmer Paris 10s, but keen to ID it.
Serial is x8384 - does this chart show that X6400 was the first in 1973 and therefore ours is in this series? http://users.speakeasy.net/~granlund/selmer_clarinet-serials.html
Why does it have 2 barrels?
We will never sell this, my son (is 12yo) and is keen to play it for now. But is it worth having it restored to former glory, or just get it serviced and leave the imperfections on the wood/silver?
4 pics of it here http://1drv.ms/1Rqo34A
Thanks