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Limited eBay full Boehm instrument sweep

SOTSDO

Old King Log
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Today, while waiting for the crowd from the Martin Luther King, Junior Day parade to disperse, I took the time to make a limited eBay sweep, and found the following:

A full Boehm A, complete with banding on top, at the bottom, but (curiously) not in the middle:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HENRI-SELME...978?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e96ec106a

A new Bb full Boehm clarinet from the Series 10 group (not my favorate, but still, new):

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Selmer-10s-...332?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cf0a756cc

A Model 55 full Boehm, offered by a guy who thinks that we are in danger of running out of nickel, of all things:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Sel...771?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20f3f8bb0b

A one piece body full Boehm (buyer beware!) offered by a guy who "don't know anything about clarinets":

http://www.ebay.com/itm/A-full-Boeh...054?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3aa00ee9ae

Here's one in A, but from the "keep your horn assembled in the case, boyo!" generation (I avoided these like the plague, since the bells tended to be cracked at the joint with the horn due to differential expansion:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Sel...837?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a92843ffd

And, that's just from the first seven pages!

Oddly enough, a search of Leblanc clarinets seldom reveals a single full Boehm instrument, this despite the fact that they sold them for about twenty years longer than did Selmer. Go figure...,
 
I play a full Boehm (plays to low Eb) Centered Tone...it is my primary clarinet and use the various additional fingerings to great advantage; especially the articulated G# and 1and1 fingerings....it's also kind of cool to go down to the eb (DISCLAIMER: I play jazz and swing so have the opportunity to improvise and use full range of instrument).
 
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