Author: johntownley
Date: 2016-05-14 18:00
I am awaiting the arrive of an Alexandre 5-piece metal Bb. It apparently has no serial number but says Alexandre Paris in the same lettering I've seen wooden Alexandres, plus France somewhere else near the mouthpiece. Is this a stencil from Germany, as suggested elsewhere, or something actually produced by Alexandre Selmer when he went back to France in the 1920s? Selmer (but Henri, I think) started making metal clarinets in 1927, but I don't knowhow long.
Elsewhere on the CBB Modernicus mentioned he had one, but didn't say anything about it. Because it's a multiple-piece affair (cheap ones were usually single-body) it might be better, and looks like it, but will know when it arrives...anyone have any tales to tell on this one? Would really like to know its background...
In the meantime, hope someone better at Anatolian music (and with bigger hands) than I gets my metal Ramazan Kor, which is really thunderous, hated to part with it...
John Townley, Sea Cliff, NY
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