Early 1900\'s Alexadre Selmer Wooden Clarinet Paris & Wooden Stand Up Case
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Early 1900\'s Alexadre Selmer Wooden Clarinet Paris & Wooden Stand Up Case:
$170.00
Vintage Early 1900\'s Alexadre Selmer Wooden Clarinet Paris With Wooden Stand Up Case. There are no chips or cracks in the wood. The 2 longest pieces of the clarinet are marked with matching numbers 2810. There is a G7 mouth piece from The WoodWind Co. Clarinet will need a thorough cleaning and lube. The corks will need to be replaced. Contact me with any questions and I will answer them the best I can. Payment is due within 48 hrs after sales end. Free Shipping USA Only.
Alexandre Clarinets -Barbier Clarinets -G Bundy Clarinets
Alexandre Clarinets were from Henri Selmer\'s Brother Alexandre. (in summary from the old Selmer Paris website - info no longer on the new one) Alexandre departed to the US in 1885 and was solo clarinetist for several of America\'s biggest Orchestras (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, and New York Philharmonic Orchestra). He also struck out on his own and started manufacturing Alexandre clarinets in the US.
He started the Selmer USA company in 1904 and then started importing his brother\'s, Henri Selmer, instruments to the US. George Bundy, a former student,was hired to manage the company. When Henri desperately needed assistance in producing clarinets Alexandre went back to France in 1910 and opened the Gazillion factory. For a short period he produced Alexandre clarinets in France. These clarinets are stamped \"made in france\" the US ones I believe had no marking of origin. He then abandoned clarinet manufacture after helping his brother get his clarinet design \"corrected\". George Bundy at one time sold wood Bundy clarinets, which were from one of the Alexandre (Selmer Paris) plants and not the specific Selmer Paris plant as some suggest.
You could say the Alexandre clarinets were Selmer Paris prototype clarinets. BUT they are not. Alexandre Selmer is a Selmer, but not a Henri Selmer and then Alexandre did design the new Henri Selmer clarinets which of course resemble his clarinets. Confusing\" basically in Paris there was Henri Selmer Paris, Alexander Selmer Paris (factories) and Barbier at one time. The two Selmer factories, being Selmer (Henri & Alexandre).
Alexandre used to travel alot giving Master Classes in the US and Europe. But due to the \"Henri Selmer\" lineage his history is somewhat obscured and forgotten.
SN 726x - manufactured 1926-1927
NOTE: There are Alexandre saxophones but those are Italian made and no relation to Selmer
In 1927 George Bundy buys his store from the Selmers and becomes the sole distributor of the Henri Selmer Paris instruments. He names his company \"H & A Selmer Inc.\" H&A probably standing for Henri & Alexandre. H&A is seen on vintage Selmer USA saxophones too.
Below is an earlier Alexandre. throat keys are on separate posts but no throat adjusting screw and no trill guide
Paris model, unknown serial number
Paris model sn 1492
Paris model serial number 6669
BarbierClarinets
One of the quick identifiers of a Barbier is the trill key guide is only on the top trill key (most guide the top two trill keys)
while some of them may not have a trill key guide
The later Barbier, Paris made clarinets were supposedly SML stencils
But the late Barbier clarinets were made in Elkhart Indiana and resembled the early Signets. Selmer Paris basically exited from the student level instruments to concentrate on professional only instruments, as they had Selmer USA now who moved to larger manufacturing capability in Elkhart from New York.
G Bundy Clarinets
For more G Bundygo to this page - click here.
This particular G Bundy clarinet has \"Sponsored by Selmer\" on it.
Taken from the Selmer Paris website 1/2010 (their old website had much more information which was not carried over to this version, thus copying for some record)
(1904) The Selmer Paris clarinets are presented for the first time at the International Saint Louis Fair (USA), where Henri wins a Gold Medal.
(1904) At this period, Alexandre Selmer, Henri\'s brother, has been first clarinetist in the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra for two eyars. From 1903, he plays the clarinets his brother is manufacturing in France. This will strongly contribute to the development of their sales in the US.
(1905) Paul Lefevre and his son Henri, who had been working for Maison Robert (a clarinet manufacturer), join Henri Selmer\'s team.
(1905) Henri takes over the Barbier Company (a flute manufacturer, rue du faubourg Saint Denis, in Paris).
(1905) The following year, Alexandre officially establishes himself in New York USA, where he starts selling the Selmer Paris clarinets. This first structure will later become the H&A Selmer (USA) company.
(1908) Selmer factory has 20 workmen and apprentices.
(1910) presentation of the first Selmer catalogue
(1910) Alexandre, after having opened his first shop in the United States, decides to return to France, entrusting the management to one of his students, George Bundy.
(1912) Opening of the Gaillon factory (Euro), which employs around 40 workers
(1912) The following year the Paris workshop is expanded and the manufacturing means restructured.
(1919) Opening of a new factory in Mantes whose technical direction is headed by Maurice and Henre Lefevre, both son-in-laws of Henri Selmer. Other saxophone manufacturers, like Dolnet and Evette-Schaeffer, are already established in this city.
(1928) Creation of Selmer Canada
(1929) Creation of Selmer London
(1929) Purchase of Adolphe Sax workshops
(1931) Acquisition of Millereua - a brass manufacturer
(1932) Selmer branches out into guitar manufacture in partnership with stringed-instrument maker Mario Maccaferri.
(1933) Release of the \"Armstrong\" trumpet model later known as \"Balanced\" and of the model Harry James.
(1948) Marcel Mule officials becomes the saxophone tester
(1949) purchases the Mytha street building where the Adoplphe Sax workshops were previously. Three new floors where built to increase the brass workshop space.
(1953) Alexandre Selmer passes away
(1964) microphone specifically released for amplifications of woodwinds
(1975) Release of the Marchi system clarinet in collaboration with Joseph Marchi.. This brought the addition of a 17th key and improved pitch and sound in high and top registers and extended the range of the Boehm system clarinet in Bb by an extra octave, thereby preparing it for the contemporary repertoire.
Early 1900\'s Alexadre Selmer Wooden Clarinet Paris & Wooden Stand Up Case:
$170.00