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Author: QuikPawn
Date: 2014-06-24 00:24
I have a Selmer Bass Clarinet that I'm having trouble identifying. It is a pro-model, made in Paris, SN N1215, silver plated, low Eb, and has 43 stamped on the horn. Anyone out there have any ideas? I've been told it may be a Model 65.
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Author: MichaelW
Date: 2014-06-24 00:34
According to:
http://www.woodwind.org/clarinet/Equipment/HowOld/Selmer.html
the N series No.1215 is from 1947.
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Author: MichaelW
Date: 2014-06-24 13:02
For more detailed informations:
http://www.clarinetperfection.com/clsnSelmerParis.htm
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Author: ebonite
Date: 2014-06-24 13:32
MichaelW wrote:
> According to:
> http://www.woodwind.org/clarinet/Equipment/HowOld/Selmer.html
> the N series No.1215 is from 1947.
The selmer serial numbers have already made a complete cycle through the alphabet. They reached Z in the 1970's and started again from A.
So the N series could be much more recent than 1947.
If the trill keys are on rotating rods (rather than levers as on Bb clarinets), then it is a later model
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2014-06-24 13:40
If you could post some photos that would help identify it - the earlier N series Selmers usually had unplated nickel silver keywork.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: QuikPawn
Date: 2014-06-25 00:05
Thank you so much for all of the great information! Here are a few pictures:
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Author: QuikPawn
Date: 2014-06-25 00:18
http://s1353.photobucket.com/user/QuikPawn/library/
I can't upload the photos on here so I put them on photobucket.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2014-06-25 04:32
Your bass is definitely a recent one.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: blazian
Date: 2014-06-25 08:05
Isn't it a 32? I used one just like that in high school. I miss that fantastic beast. A 65 would have a more compact neck with a different mouthpiece angle wouldn't it?
- Martin
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Author: ebonite
Date: 2014-06-25 13:08
> Isn't it a 32? I used one just like that in high school. I miss
> that fantastic beast. A 65 would have a more compact neck with
> a different mouthpiece angle wouldn't it?
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Yes, if the 65 is the current model, then I think that QuikPawn's one is the model just before that (is that model 32? I thought it was 35)
As well as the different neck angle, the 65 would have a vent hole on the bell
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Author: QuikPawn
Date: 2014-06-25 20:10
Thank you all so much! Does anyone know anything that I could look for that would make it a 32 or 35?
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Author: blazian
Date: 2014-06-26 03:33
I think it's a 32 because I thought they changed to the straight trill keys on the 35.
Edit: Just kidding. I think I'm wrong.
- Martin
Post Edited (2014-06-26 03:36)
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2014-06-26 08:57
This doesn't look like a Privilege.
It looks like a 35 because of the things that were mentioned and also because of keywork differences.
I know about the Slmer 33 model but I didn't know there was a 32 model. Googling "selmer bass clarinet 32" doesn't find anything about it.
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Author: nosqueaks
Date: 2014-06-26 09:59
Attachment: BCL-1.jpg (449k)
I think it is a model 35. The low C version was called a model 37, and I owned one for a bit. The model 32 was an older model- pre-1983. I owned one of those also. Those basses have trill keys like a Bb clarinet, not like this one which has a separate key and lever. The older models were: mod. 30- to low Eb, mod. 32- to low Eb with LH Eb/Ab lever and articulated G#/C# and the mod. 33 with range to low C. Some are series 9 basses. The model 35 and 37 are before the Privelege (65 and 67).
To confuse things even more, at some point the model numbers in Europe were different that the US- i.e. model 25 (Europe) was model 33 in the US.
This photo is a model 32 from the 1970's- an X series:
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