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Re: Selmer Series 9

Author: b_rogers
Date: 2023-02-02 22:13

Thanks for your replies. Yes, I spent some time using the search function, but couldn't find anything along the lines of "later examples of the Series 9 are bad" or whatever. I did find plenty of discussion on large bore Selmers and their peculiarities. DougR, your note that user Chris_P has valuable insight is appreciated. I'll look out for those.

Reading over my post again, I commented that the intonation was "funky." This probably isn't entirely fair. You see, I'm coming to the clarinet after 20 years of playing tenor. I really had only put in 6 months or so before I found this Series 9. I've still got lots of work to do in becoming familiar with how to play the instrument in general. What I should really say that the intonation seems different than the instrument I was playing before (a 70's USA Selmer Signet), but I don't know that it is actually worse.

My Series 9 is stamped on the upper joint, but not on the barrel. There is something else I've been wondering about: It is interesting to me that the bell is stamped:
SOLE AGENTS
U.S. & CAN.
SELMER
NEW YORK
ELKHART

Selmer stopped stamping their saxophones in a similar way after the mid 60's (first leaving only "SELMER" and "NEW YORK * ELKHART", and then eventually just "SELMER" for the late Mark VIs and the Mark VII). Assuming my Series 9 bell is original, which I believe it is, it looks like they might have continued stamping on clarinets into the 70's...?

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