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help with a potential Selmer CT purchase

Author: DougR
Date: 2018-05-19 18:53

Hi folks, I have opportunity to buy a Selmer CT; however there are some anomalies: the bell appears to be a RI/BT bell (it has that elaborate triangular-shaped import stamp below the Selmer logo typical of the RI) and the serial number is definitely a K9XXX series, which (per my serial listing) is a Radio Improved K series dating from 1931. (the upper joint, however, clearly has the CT logo and stamping and that's where the K9XXX serial is shown in pictures)

Possibly it's a CT with a replacement RI bell (but via the Clarinet Perfection serial listing, there were no K-series CTs made). The other possibility is that the upper joint is a CT joint replacement, and the rest is RI-vintage. (In which case there should be a star to the right of the serial number on the upper joint, is this right?). But why would the upper joint, IF a replacement, have a K serial number? Very puzzling!!

I would appreciate it if anyone with certain knowledge about these horns could weigh in. Visually the instrument and case and all the pieces have been together a very long time, and played a lot, and worn about equally all over, so it might be a very good instrument once it's put right--just perhaps not a CT.

thanks for any light you could shed!
(PS, the mouthpiece is an HS Table without the oval, if that means anything)

Post Edited (2018-05-19 19:38)

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