Klarinet Archive - Posting 000239.txt from 1994/02

From: "Michael B. Favreau" <MFAVREA1@-----.BITNET>
Subj: Re: Clarinet and soprano saxophone? (no problem - go for it!)
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 00:21:01 -0500

I don't know who out there is aware of the status of the Selmer
Super Action 80 soprano but, here in the United States it is brand spanking
new. If you could order one (which is difficult in itself) you would have to
wait months to get it as the waiting list is already longer than Selmer
anticipated and if anybody has actually gotten to try one (that didn't belong
to a Selmer clinician as some of them now have one) than I'd be interested to
hear how they play.

Selmer wouldn't even quote me a list price on them and couldn't really
tell me how to get one either. The major design change is in the addition of
an altissimo G key placed right next to the F# key with the vent high
up on the neck, which I believe is removeable. My teacher is a Selmer clinician
and he hasn't been able to get ahold of one yet.

Jean-Marie Londeix (former professor of saxophone and the Bordeaux
Conservatory) has been playing on a prototype alto with the same design for
three years but, they are not in production nor could Selmer predict when
or if they would be. As for Tenors and Baris, they hadn't even begun to
consider them.

MIchael B. Favreau
Ithaca College