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1. #Selmer reference 54 alto serial numbers serial numbers#
2. #Selmer reference 54 alto serial numbers series#

#Selmer reference 54 alto serial numbers serial numbers#

Serial Numbers to help date the legendary Selmer Mark VI Saxs. The Mark VI is so highly regarded as the most complete saxophone in terms of design and ergonomics as Selmer Paris got it right the freest sax ever created. Or contact us and we can place you with private dealers. The price of a Mark VI vary between £3,500 up to over £6,000. Many, many other sax super heroes blew Selmer-Paris: Paul Desmond Stanley Turrentine and Coleman Hawkins, who had his Selmer specially made with a quadrupled plated bell soul sax legend Junior Walker and Joshua Redman, of the new generation the list is endless. Mark’s favourite saxmen who blew Selmer-Paris are Ben Webster, who blew a Selmer 'Balanced Action' he called ‘Old Betsy’ and Lou Donaldson, master of the 'boogaloo’, who blew a Mark VI.

The other top highly recommended types of Selmers are called, rather bizarrely, a 'Cigar Cutter'(top players either love them or hate them), 'Radio Improved' and the Selmer 'Balanced Action'(a vintage sax which is an ‘acquired taste.’) Others great Selmer Saxs are called Model 26 and Reference 54 and they all possess magical quality, it’s a question of finding out which one fits you. And now I play it and this Mark VI is 'Magical'.īerry Goddard, of Blowout Sax, has a 1929 Selmer tenor model 26, and uses a Lawton 8*B mouthpiece. And then I blew the legendary Mark VI tenor and we caught fire and I knew that sax and that sax knew me. 'You've only got one life and that's enough to learn one goddamn saxophone!'Īnd so for the first seventeen years of playing sax I blew only the alto. I always believed the classic Coleman 'Godfather of the Sax' Hawkins line about giving up playing the baritone and the bass to play just the tenor.

#Selmer reference 54 alto serial numbers series#

The latest model is called Series III, and this is because Selmer are trying to copy the Mark VI. I would definitely say playing a sax of that majesty has helped me enormously to become a very good saxman. My Selmer, brand spanking new in 1988, and with the stiff test of blowing 8 notes, was a quantum leap from the East European 'banger' I started with. I used a Peter Ponzol 007 mouthpiece and a leather ligature for 20 years and recently moved onto a Dave Guardala model King. My alto is a Selmer-Paris Series II (see photo) which I bought to congratulate myself on managing to get a degree. I am lucky enough to have one of each of the top models and I truly love them both equally, but differently.

Handcrafted in the birthplace of the sax, this is the ultimate saxophonists' dream machine. “In my opinion the very best saxophone in the world is…” If you are lucky enough to have deep pockets and want to start with the very best saxophones read on….īlowout Sax’s founder & director, Mark Archer says: