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Author: Dan Shusta
Date: 2025-04-20 10:30
Bennett Price, (user name Bennett), who holds a PhD as a researcher and former lecturer at UCB (University of CA at Berkeley) emailed me the following two links.
The first is entitled Selmer Clarinet Catalog co. 1968.pdf. It's a historical 13 page document about Selmer clarinet models, their acoustic bore design theory and mechanism design theory. No bore dimensions are included. (The 1968 appears to refer to a "catalog number" and not the year.)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pjwLR0EugPq2cTuzm3W9_BTbCjmyrBj-/view?usp=sharing
The 2nd link below connects to 259, multi-paged publications starting from the year 1910 and going all the way up to 2010. It was compiled by saxophone.org. Yes, it contains many publications about Selmer saxophones but you'll also find publications about Selmer clarinets and other musical instruments made by Selmer. Try clicking on the 24 page document entitled 1922 Selmer Woodwinds or the 1922 Selmer "What Every Clarinetist Needs". (Again, no clarinet bore dimensions are given.)
https://www.saxophone.org/museum/publications/manufacturer/1/museumType/1
I think you'll come away with the same feeling I got when I first clicked on the above link.
What a treasure trove of historical information!
Many thanks to Bennett for providing these links to Selmer history for all of us to enjoy.
Post Edited (2025-04-20 10:39)
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Author: ruben
Date: 2025-04-20 13:45
Thank you for this post. I know Jerome Selmer, the last CEO of Selmer when it was still family owned. Maybe he would like to write a short history of his family and of the company.
rubengreenbergparisfrance@gmail.com
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