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<\/a><\/p>\nSource: knclodge21 on eBay.com<\/span><\/p>\n While it was revolutionary when it was invented, it didn’t spawn a great deal of (any?) imitators. Furthermore, you don’t see many of these original ligatures around today anymore either.<\/p>\n My only experience with these ligatures was a number of years ago, because a student of mine had one. He was using a Selmer Cigar Cutter that had belonged to his Grandfather. In the case was an old Selmer mouthpiece, and one of these ligs. I knew nothing about them at the time, and until today, didn’t know that they were adjustable for alto, C melody, or tenor saxophones, as well as Bb and alto clarinets.<\/p>\n Today I happened to see a seller on eBay who has 7 of these Selmer Magni-tone ligatures for sale<\/a>. The one shown on eBay comes complete with the original box and instruction sheet, and appears to have never been used. The seller states:<\/p>\n Up for bid is an original Vintage Selmer MAGNI-TONE LIGATURE<\/span> for clarinet and alto, tenor, and bari saxes.<\/p>\n This is new in the original box with insert instructions.<\/span><\/p>\n This ligature is in MINT condition!<\/p>\n The item you will receive is like the one in the photos.<\/p>\n Ligature is in mint condition.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n Source: knclodge21 on eBay.com<\/span><\/p>\n Did you happen to note the original price on the box? It cost $1.00 way back around 1940. Today the seller is asking $119.99 at the Buy It Now price. (Hey, it’s got the Selmer name on it. This means the price automatically is 3 to 4 times that of what you would see on a similar item sans the Selmer<\/em> name.) \ud83d\ude08<\/p>\n Not so fast… In order to pull in the big bucks from collectors, the Selmer name needs to mean Selmer Paris. Right?… That is if horn sales are any predictor of collectors’ wants in the accessory market.<\/p>\n It turns out that US Patent 2200054<\/a>, was issued to none other than George Bundy et al., assignor to Selmer USA, on May 7, 1940.<\/p>\n According to the patent application, the ligature was designed to overcome the following problems associated with conventional ligs:<\/p>\n Therefore these new, soon-to-be-called Selmer Magni-tone ligatures were designed to:<\/p>\n This is what the original patent drawing looked like:<\/p>\n Unlike many patents drawings, this one actually looks like the final product. (It’s quite possible that the ligature was already in production at this time.)<\/p>\n I haven’t been able to find anything that indicates how long Selmer sold these Magni-tone ligatures for. However, I did notice that Borgani has remade them, as is currently selling them under the Flexitone Adjustable<\/em> label. Matt Stohrer has more info<\/a> about them on his site, and is also selling them if anyone is interested.<\/p>\n If on the other hand, you want the original Selmer Magni-tone ligature, you only have a few hours before the auction is over. The auction ends later today<\/a>.<\/p>\n My prediction: We’ll see them again. The seller does have 7 after all. And for $119.99, they aren’t all going to be sold in the next 8 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reeds. Love ’em or hate ’em, they are to a huge degree responsible for our sound. And while some people worship at the shrine of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[94],"tags":[41,660,237,683,644,88,343],"class_list":["post-35882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories-saxophone","tag-accessories","tag-ebay","tag-ligatures","tag-patents","tag-photos","tag-selmer-usa","tag-vintage-accessories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n
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