Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2004-10-08 16:03
Ralph Morgan, who worked for Selmer maybe forever, said that the best Selmer alto ever was a pre-Mark-VI model (the Balanced Action, maybe?) that appeared to be missing a key, which was operated by an automatic mechanism.
Don - I remember when Leblanc put out it's insanely complicated alto. You held a right hand finger down, and it lowered the entire left hand by a half step. They claimed that this made many impossible passages simple. The model came and went almost overnight. Obviously the learning of a new set of fingerings was too much of a chore, and with that many extra rods and levers, the key action must have been a bear to operate. You're lucky to have such a rarity. How does it play?
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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