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Author: jmcgann
Date: 2006-11-30 15:50
No.
Google gave me: "Selmer " Signet" Wood Clarinet is a step up instrument for the advancing student."
Honestly, you can do your own homework as I suggested in your other thread.
www.johnmcgann.com
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2006-11-30 16:51
FWIW - I obtained [liberated] a Selmer USA Signet "100" [wood] ser.#224544 from our local music store, tweaked it into good playing condition, loaned it to a [several-years-student] while having her cl worked on by a pro. She delayed coming back for her plastic, apparently enjoying the Sig, to almost a cat-for-dog trade !! It has about the "darkest" tonalities of any of my menagerie, including my old [winged] Selmer A. I may play it in church orch Sunday !! Not bad for an older "intermediate". Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: John O'Janpa
Date: 2006-11-30 19:30
I have owned and played on Selmer Signets for fifty- one years (with a long break in the middle). Right now I own about a half dozen of them including the one from 1955.
While not generally considered a "pro" clarinet, they are one of the best clarinets made in the USA. They have good keywork and can sound very good.
The older "SOLOISTS" especially are nice instruments. Hand selected wood and better key plating (possibly chrome) that holds up well over the years.
While not a "pro" clarinet, there are people making money playing them.
The intonation is not as even as the polycylindrical Buffet E-11 and R13, but nothing that can't be controlled.
Post Edited (2006-12-01 17:41)
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Author: gbarton1955
Date: 2006-11-30 23:14
thanks! I've also found someone selling and Edgware clarinet made by Boosey & Hawkes in London, England but I've never heard of them
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2006-12-01 11:33
I have a Selmer Signet Special (grenadilla), from the mid-1980s. No, not a pro model, but it's a good intermediate or step-up clarinet--a good value for the money, IMHO. Since most of my other clarinets are vintage, I like to use the Signet for woodshedding, to save wear and tear on the older instruments.
Lelia
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Author: EuGeneSee
Date: 2006-12-01 13:49
B&H is an old company that has made student clarinets under the Edgeware model name for many many years. I have owned a couple of them myself and they seemed to be nice sounding, although at least some had pot metal keys which broke easily. My first horn in 4th grade was a hard rubber Edgeware (which I still own) and I later had a wooden one which was given to me - I gave it to the homeschool band. Eu
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Author: Tony Beck
Date: 2006-12-01 15:30
Keep in mind that there are several versions of Signet. the Soloist was the top of the line. Rumor has it that Soloists were assembled in the US from French made parts. Someone here may be able to confirm or refute that. Next was the Special. This was a good playing and well made instrument. Other models go downward from there. In my limited experience, most Signets are decent players.
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