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Re: Selmer Focus & Concept blank

Author: RLarm
Date: 2017-07-22 21:35

Echi85: You just purchased a "grey" market horn if you didn't go Conn/Selmer USA. That means you have no US warranty. I know you probably know all of this but a lot of the readers don't. "Officially" you're supposed to purchase the the horn through an "authorized US Selmer dealer. You choose the horn which will be sent to your designated Selmer USA dealer. Did you have to sand off the Selmer imprint? . A former teacher of mine bought a great Buffet Eb at Buffet Paris. He had to sand off the emblems and had Kal Opperman work on it. (I unknowingly bought a grey market Selmer low C. It had severe plating issues and was completely overhauled twice. I think it was one of the last horns that Clark Fobes worked on before he went full-time into mouthpieces, etc. I found out about the horn's "illegal" status when I was about to send it to Selmer USA. The manager told me what the owner had done. If Selmer USA found out they might have stripped the dealer's authorization to sell any SELMER product. When it was first worked on the dealer was shocked at what happened to the horn's plating."Did you practice this at the beach?")

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