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Author: Mike Hancock
Date: 2000-06-04 14:51
Can anyone tell me the differences (if any) between Selmer CL370 and 1425 Alto Clarinets? Also, can anyone estimate the year of manufacture for a Selmer CL370 with S/N 27xxx?
Thanks for your help.....
Mike Hancock
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2000-06-04 18:28
I have a pro Selmer A C, very good, but dont have a Sel catalog describing your no's, will look in BW-WW etc. Can you give us a bit of description to help? Don
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Author: Robert Small
Date: 2000-06-05 02:48
Don--does the Selmer alto have the left hand Eb/Ab key and articulated G#/C# like pro level basses?
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2000-06-05 15:09
Good questions, R S, my Selmer A C does not have the "additions" beyond the low Eb. I presume they can be added by a special order, will check my catalogs. I have seen the alt. Ab/Eb and the art.C#/G# on older Linton, Pedler and Gerards,but not the "fork" Eb/Bb, which is less-needed, since with a well-adjusted bridge key, using both index fingers provides a very useful 3rd fingering [for me]. These older A C's did have the 2nd register keying, which IMHO is not as badly needed as on a bass cl. My Selmer 33 bass has all of the "additions" except for the "fork", which, because of the plateau- inter-connected pads would be difficult and/or trickey to adjust. I hope the above is similar to what I wrote last nite, when AOHELL erased it before I could hit post!! Luck, Don
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Author: Mike Hancock
Date: 2000-06-05 17:56
Don....
Not much to add....the instrument is one piece plastic (resonite?), has a double register key mechanism with what looks to be a nylon (or other plastic) link and several adjusting screws, goes to low Eb, has a bleed hole in the lh index finger key. My reading of the WW & BW catalog only shows the Selmer (Bundy?) model 1425; where does (or did) the model CL370 fit in the product line? And, BTW, it has a Selmer C* mouthpiece with it.
Mike Hancock
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2000-06-05 21:01
Sorry Mike, I'm not going to be able to help you since any catalog info I have shows only Selmer's Bb's. You need to find a detailed Selmer catalog at a music store or try Selmer's web-site, maybe find a phone no. to ask. If both horns are plastic [student-intermediate] models, I wouldnt expect much diff. since alto demand is very low! If both are available to you , make you own evaluation of any differences and/or find a more experienced cl'ist. Don
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Author: Lelia
Date: 2000-06-06 16:23
I have a 1979 wooden Selmer alto and like the Selmer C* very much on it. FWIW, I've seen several comments from other people who play Selmer clarinets (of various sizes) and like Selmer C* mpcs on them, even though quite a few people who prefer other brands of clarinet don't care for the Selmer C* and find it too shrill. It may be that this is one of those cases where the mpc and clarinet of the same brand match up particularly well together. One of the things people sometimes complain about with alto clarinets is fuzzy, too-soft or too-muffled tone. IMHO, the Selmers have a bigger, bolder tone than most altos, more evenly mathced across the register break, or at least that's true with my wooden (pro-quality) alto. I like this clarinet a lot! I also often use alto sax reeds on it, depending on what kind of music I'm working on. The alto sax reeds seem to me to have a louder sound that projects more. It's closer to the tone of a Bb soprano clarinet than I get with alto clarinet reeds.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2000-06-06 18:57
Well said, Lelia, you pretty much describe my experience, also with the C* mps. Going back to it on my Sel bass cured a lot of my problems and gives a "softer sound", and its a good second on my alto cl to an old "Olympia" [which prob. is a C*!!]. Don
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