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 Selmer 10G -- Which Are the Good Ones
Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date:   2005-11-20 14:51

Ralph Morgan tells this story about the Selmer 10G:

Moennig did extensive customization on Gigliotti's Buffets. Selmer Paris made a deal to copy it as the 10G. However, Moennig worked on each instrument individually. Simply copying it by setting up the machinery to duplicate Gigliotti's instrument couldn't produce clarinets that played the same way, or even in tune. There had to be custom work at the end, which Selmer couldn't duplicate, at least at an affordable price.

Morgan knew how to do this sort of artistic finishing, and he found half a dozen artisans who could also do it.

He gave Selmer a new set of measurements for the 10G, which produced a semi-finished instrument. These were sent to Morgan in Elkhart, where he set up a finishing shop exactly like the great ones before WWII. They produced clarinets that were very close to Gigliotti's own.

This operation lasted only a short time. The hand-finished Selmer 10Gs are in the serial number range Z6835 through A1200.

Selmer assigned serial numbers to all kinds of instruments as they were made, and only a few hundred of them were 10G clarinets.

When Selmer shut down Morgan's finishing line, he send the Paris office a new set of measurements that made the instruments play reasonably well, but nothing like the hand-finished ones.

Ken Shaw
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