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Author: Chris P
Date: 2008-04-21 10:23
A couple of weeks back I let a fellow player try my Buffet bass as he's looking for a low C bass to use for pit work (but has never been able to try any Buffet basses out as they tend to get snapped up quickly), and he had with him a Q-series Selmer bass to low E (with no LH Ab/Eb key).
So back in the '40s-'50s, did Selmer offer their basses in various models from low E models to low C models (with the low Eb and low D models being in between)?
The player that bought my B&H 1010 said she's got a low D Selmer bass from around this era, though she wasn't using it at the time so I never got to see it.
But it's good to know they offered various models of basses as they did with all the various models of soprano clarinets that were around (even full Boehm Eb clarinets).
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Merlin_Williams
Date: 2008-04-21 11:40
I've never seen a Selmer with just a D extension.
I have seen and played a Conn bass clarinet to low D.
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Author: Molloy
Date: 2008-04-21 14:56
I've got a Radio Improved bass to low Eb with LH Ab/Eb and articulated C#/G#, and I've seen the same set-up on a CT-era. I've seen a mid-century Selmer (Q-series, I think, making it CT-era) bass with two register keys. So there was still a lot of variety at that time. I've never seen a low-D Selmer but I can't doubt they made them.
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