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Vintage Selmer... ?

Author: ZCClarinet
Date: 2004-07-12 21:23

This one is old. After hearing about me thinking about getting a new clarinet, my mom pulled out a clarinet that was my grandfather's. It is a Selmer Berevete "SGDG" with a serial number of 6230 (no letter at all before, according to sneezy that's around the year 1930), and has several extra parts in the key department, including an alternate G# for the left pinky, a low Eb key for the right pinky, also the "banana shaped" Eb key for the octave above that (bottom line of the staff) also presses shut a secondary very small hole which seems to clean the tone qualtiy for that note up, and the C#/G# key which is usually located at the bottom of the top half of the body is actually on the bottom half, and closes a hole which goes litereally through the tendon which connects the two halves. Nice tone and response though it hasn't been touched in several decades, as well as the keys fitting my fingers very well, though my mom said the last time she took it into a store they found a crack somewhere under the keywork (I've yet to find it). There are also a few "bites" taken out of 2 tendons. I'm most likely going to get my R-13 "Brannenized" after my 1st clarinet fest (yay!) and am wondering if it would be wise to get this one overhauled as well.

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