Klarinet Archive - Posting 000463.txt from 1995/12

From: Nick Shackleton <njs5@-----.UK>
Subj: Re: yet another Selmer look-up request
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 05:18:15 -0500

> If indeed there is someone out there looking up the manufacturing dates
> of old Selmer clarinets, I am not going to be shy:
>
> Henri Selmer
> Paris
> FRANCE
>
> serial number: L 6911
I guess you received the date (1936) already. You might like to know that in
The Clarinet for spring 1955 there is a request for anybody who has Selmer
L3682 to loan it back to Benny Goodman (who offers a 500dollar Selmer Omega
in exchange for a 3 week loan!). It seems that this is the instrument
Goodman used for many of his old recordings, and then traded it but coulnd't
remember where. So maybe yours is in a good series.
Nick Shackleton
Nick Shackleton, University of Cambridge, Godwin Laboratory,
Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RS, UK
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