Klarinet Archive - Posting 000592.txt from 2004/01

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] [clarinet] Selmer clarinet
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:11:10 -0500

At 12:08 AM 1/18/2004 -0500, David Niethamer wrote:
>A keyboard colleague of mine has an old Selmer clarinet, serial # K999,
>which belonged to his father. I haven't seen it, but he says it's a
>wooden instrument. I made a quick trip to the serial number pages of
>woodwind.org, but didn't find serial numbers starting in K for Selmer.
>Anyone have any idea what this clarinet might be, its age, etc? Andy
>wants to sell this to a student who might get some use out of it. Any
>idea of the value?

Apparently some of the early Selmers had the "K" in the serial number and
some did not. The K's, naturally, precede the "L"-series, though, placing
them before 1931. K999 should fall between 1927 (start of production) and
1929. It probably has the older, oval shaped Selmer logo, too, I'd
imagine. You do see them on eBay occasionally. It should be worth a
couple of hundred bucks in good condition, about the same as any Buffet
from the same era.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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