Klarinet Archive - Posting 001404.txt from 1999/01

From: "Doug Sears" <dsears@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] selmer centered tone and Series 9
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:51:36 -0500

My Selmer Series 9 Bb measures 14.86 mm at the top of the right-hand
joint. I wouldn't call it large-bored. It's a wonderful instrument -- I
don't know why they stopped making them. I'd be interested in hearing what
people think their shortcomings are.

--Doug
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Doug Sears dsears@-----.org/~dsears

Wendell Stampfli wrote:

> I have been playing a series 9 for my whole clarinet career. I had no
> idea it was a large bore instrument. How does it compare to the Buffet
> line? I use a Vandoren m-13 'lyre' mouthpiece with Van 2 1/2 reeds.

probably in response to Ed Maurey, who wrote:

> I have played Centered Tones and their offspring Series 9's for years.
> They are the last of the big bored Selmers that dominated the clarinet
> world the first half of the 20th Century. They blow freely. They have
> a dark, not fruity sweet small bore sound.

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