Author: EuGeneSee
Date: 2007-01-27 03:29
Bill: I have one of those nether world 4 digit horns, a FB Selmer that fell into the crack between the Winged Globe series and the K series. Though it doesn't have the globe, it does have the HS dollar sign and Brevette S.G.D.G. (Brevette, sans guarantie du governmente . . . roughly, "Patent pending, without guaranty by the government"). I never have been able to find out anything about that horn . . . have the same problem with a Selmer USA 4 digit "New York-Elkhart"from the same general period.
I suppose those older horns, though nice, just didn't generate the level of excitement that arose after the K series introduced many of the innovations that really changed the clarinet world. It appears that by the time the innovations were "discovered" by the mass of clarinettists, the L series had already gone into production.
Maybe because of less interest in those horns, and possibly lack of records, the various lists are pretty nebulous about them. I don't know why the most common list we all see on here runs from the 4 digit numbers right into the L series, omitting any mention of the K horns. Eu
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