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Author: GANAK
Date: 2017-05-07 18:57
Hello fellow clarinetists, I have a selmer series 9 E flat soprano clarinet I'm trying to find a value for. I think it's a 1964, serial number T6898. Can anyone help me with this?
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Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2017-05-07 21:41
I don't know the exact value, but I had one stolen from me. It was a very good horn, better than the Buffet's during the time era. $1300 sounds about right, if it is in good condition. $700 if it needs pads and other work. If there are cracks as low as $500 or less. If you have a good mouthpiece for it, maybe as high as $2200. The horn is old! From the 1960's I think. There are some good Eb horns being made now. A few years ago you could get top dollar for these. $3000. So try to dump it soon, if you don't play on it.
Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces
Yamaha Artist 2015
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Author: TomS
Date: 2017-05-07 23:53
My series 9 E-flat was better than all the rest in it's day. Made about 1965, I think.
The local HS band had monster clarinet players in the 1950s and 60s ... they tried all E-flats and also came up with the Selmer. By far better than Buffet or Leblanc. I remember our Efer player was a big guy with big meaty hands ... he could play ANYTHING the soprano players could on this little critter. He was also first chair All-State on this instrument.
We had a private teacher that was the Daniel Bonade of Central Arkansas. This guy beat you into submission ... you would leave a lesson tired, shaking and soaked in perspiration. A tough love approach ... and it worked. You dare not come to the next lesson unprepared ... I had all of 4 sessions before my parents didn't want to mess up their Saturdays with my lessons ... Too bad, he churned out All-State players by the dozens ... many went on with careers in music, either teaching or playing professionally.
Tom
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2017-05-08 00:32
I've got a late Series 9 full Boehm Eb clarinet - I think I paid £980 for it and it's a great player. It had most of its original pads and key corks, so I stripped it down and rebuilt it as well as shortened the LH Ab/Eb lever so I could use the LH F#/C# key without catching it every time and also added an adjusting screw to the articulated C#/G# key for better adjustment rather than relying on some useless bit of cork to do that.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Wes
Date: 2017-05-08 00:52
About four years ago, I overhauled the Series 9 Eb owned by Kingsburg High using all cork pads so that my granddaughter could use it. That Eb was the best I've ever seen and the altissimo was very fine. If I were really wanting a first class Eb, I think that $2000 could be an ok price, considering the cost of new Ebs and the quality of the instrument.
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Author: Ed
Date: 2017-05-08 18:45
The Series 9 Eb is a fantastic instrument. I would go as far as to say it may be one of the best Eb clarinets around, new or old.
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