{"id":32498,"date":"2012-06-16T10:22:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T17:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=32498"},"modified":"2024-06-01T10:16:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T17:16:05","slug":"classic-selmer-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2012\/classic-selmer-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"A Classic Selmer And What That Gets Me Thinking About"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning while perusing Flickr, I happened to come across this great, B&W shot of a classic, pre-Mark VI Selmer.<\/p>\n

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     Photography by: tobyjm<\/a>  Source: Flickr<\/a><\/h6>\n

This very early Balanced Action tenor appears to be silver plated. Or perhaps it is mostly delacquered\/bare brass.<\/p>\n

Oh if only this horn could talk, and tell us its history. I wonder what kinds of shows it’s played in its life, and who has owned it for the past 77 or so years.<\/p>\n

I suspect I view the ownership of classic horns like this a bit differently than most. These instruments, when looked after properly, will be around way beyond the lifetime of their current owners.<\/p>\n

Therefore, owning a classic, vintage horn, is like being the guardian of that instrument for a period of time. Once our time on this planet is over, then the guardianship of said instrument falls to someone else.<\/p>\n

This is something I’ve been thinking about lots lately, because I have to revise my will. What do I do with my rather extensive saxophone family? That’s a question I’ve been asking myself lately, and something to explore on another day, in another article.<\/p>\n

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…this is just my blog<\/em>. <\/span> My \u201creal\u201d <\/b> website is<\/span> www.bassic-sax.info.<\/a> If you\u2019re looking for <\/span> sax info<\/strong>,<\/span> you should check it out too.<\/span>There\u2019s lots<\/em> there! <\/span><\/div>\n
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