Ney Yorker Article on Selmer Mark VI Saxophones

[BeBop]

Sorry, it is probably behind a pay wall.

Interesting to me.  I grew up playing altogether and tenor in the sixties, seventies, eighties...  The article captures the sentiments of my days around these horns.   My cousin owned the largest musical instrument store West of much-of-America.  I could have had innumerable Mark VIs at wholesale or less.  Still these were more expensive than other horns (at same discount), so I went with the product I could more readily afford.  Regrets?  I would go with the milder "occasional twinges".  And yes, I still play.  Yamaha, mainly.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-legend-of-the-selmer-mark-vi?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_010624&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&utm_term=tny_daily_digest&bxid=5bea04523f92a404693e5cf0&cndid=8049298&hasha=249c6f3ba6da9f452aaf57df6b7689e6&hashb=0672c70953f2ad5edeb32477a04ceaecfa9574a2&hashc=6050ecdeb31a7e169e20bc9c2aef4a17a508003dbc0f35d165412ddfed82949c&esrc=OIDC_SELECT_ACCOUNT_&mbid=CRMNYR012019

 

 

[danasgoodstuff]

I have a Conn & a King, both C-melodies.  Both nearly 100 years old.  I have no interest at all in Selmers, even if I could afford them.

[BeBop]

My C Melody is a Buescher.  I imagine a Selmer Mark VI C Melody, if such a thing existed,  would play closer to in-tune. 

[JSngry]

They made 5 of them?!?!?!

https://www.saxontheweb.net/threads/mark-vi-c-melody.46877/#replies

[BeBop]

Jim, thanks for the SOTW link.  I slept through that one.  Amazing to me that Selmer would make just a handful of anything.  One or two, for a marquee player.  A million for tout le monde.