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Selmer Full Boehm Eb Clarinets ...

Author: Chris P
Date: 2012-12-16 18:48

Anyone have any experience with them? My current Eb is an old R13 which is very nice, but it doesn't have the gadgets I'm used to, so instead of performing major surgery to it ...

... I've just bid and won this Z-series full Boehm Eb on eBay:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Selmer-Eb-Clarinet-/271119626633?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&nma=true&si=cS31%2Fm9s4ZIztVHB4IyWuJe2Nq8%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

I'm not sure if it's a Series 9 or Series 10 being a Z-series and there aren't any photos of the speaker bush which would confirm this. Did Series 9 Ebs have a metal tipped upper tenon?

Either way, I can't wait to get it! It was either this Selmer, or an old Amati full Boehm Eb from the '60s/'70s - I think I made the right choice here!

For £980 I don't think that's too much considering there are used B&H Imperial Ebs going for around £1700 and used Noblet Ebs going for around £850. New pro level Ebs being around £2500 (for a Buffet, Patricola or Yamaha) and the Selmer Recital is around £4700. A new Amati is around the £850 mark, but none of them are full Boehm which is what I want - the Recital does have the LH Ab/Eb key, but not the forked Eb/Bb, articulated C#/G# or low Eb/alternative middle Bb.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

Post Edited (2012-12-16 20:48)

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