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Re: Did Selmer Make ANY Dud 55s, BTs or CTs?

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2018-10-29 06:05

Well i'm only aware of the CT. I had a very decent Eb clarinet which was stolen. At the time it was compared to the Buffets often thought to be better and sometimes worse, during that era. Both horns had intonation issues so it was hard to say which one was better.

For jazz, no question, on a Bb I'd take a CT - Center Tone, and I really like jazz. Great horns as well as the 9 and 9*. Also the 10 series is excellent and often underrated, passed up for the Buffet R13's a lot so you sometimes can get decent deals. These are very much pro horns, just getting older as time clicks away, bores change the wood changes, things like that.

The G was said to stand for Gigliotti on the bell. I never measured the bells of any Selmers, however knowing Tony who did his own work on his horns he probably did make some sort of adjustments, such as making it shorter, longer, or removing wood out of the bell. He also made some decent mouthpieces, but not great. So they didn't go up in value. When he died there was and still is all sorts of lawsuits that may never be settled as to who owns his estate, including his mouthpieces which Babbitt made. I think one of his 2 wives is actually in jail. I'm not sure which one. So that is what I know about the G.

Some of his Philadelphia Orchestra recordings are amazing. He's one of those players like Harold Wright that died too young and not enough solo recordings were ever made.

Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces

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