Author: John Peacock
Date: 2021-09-13 13:05
I bought a pair of 10G's a few years ago as an experiment, but they ended up getting sold. I let a friend try them, who normally played on 10S's. His comment was "wow, they're so dark". Maybe this just shows that the "D word" is impossible to pin down. I got rid of them because I felt were too bright. And I also find the 10S too bright, but in a different way. The 10S is less resistive than the 10G, but neither of them could deliver the mellowness that you can get out of a good Buffet - or indeed out of a Selmer series 9*. I have one of those, and I enjoy playing it in a way that I never could with the 10G/10S. Although it's perhaps more for personal consumption, as the 9* tuning is not really up to modern standards. Perhaps that was the motivation for Selmer's shift to the 10 series, but I feel they lost something tonally even as the tuning was improved. Incidentally, it may be that the instrument you describe already exists in the form of the Selmer Privilege. That is more resistive than the 9*, and has a distinctly warmer sound than 10G/10S. The downside is that it's really heavy (almost as bad as the Recital), and has a few serious tuning issues (altissimo D and F are terribly flat) - but in many respects it's a really nice instrument.
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