[Shampanja]

Hi everybody!

Here's my question about an unusual horn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYznRN4xUSc&feature=em-upload_owner

The serial number is 546xx so it's supposed to be a sba. Almost all the lists say that the first M6's were from serial number 55 200 -

Anybody have seen a similar neck? Anyone have a tenor with a close serial number?

cheers!

 

[Tharruff]

It's a very early Mark VI...the currently published serial number lists are approximations at best...

 

[A Greene]

It's the first year of the Mark VI - The Neck looks to be original. Nice find.

 

[LiAm84]

This is one of those interesting transitional early Mark 6/SBA's. It has the strange transitional left hand pinky cluster which looks like a combination of SBA and MarkVI. Notice how the pillars are angled like a BA/SBA where as on a Mark Vi the are all on the same level. I very briefly owned one of these (only for one day and then I got buyers remorse and got a refund). There are a couple of threads somewhere on the forum about these horns.

 

[Tzadik]

According to an old Mark VI ad... the first Mark VI was a 53727.

 

[averageschmoe]

Mark VI, see my post in the facebook saxophonists group.

 

[jgreiner]

Mark VI, see my post in the facebook saxophonists group.

Linky-poo? ;-)

John

 

[SimonJazzSax]

This is one of those interesting transitional early Mark 6/SBA's. It has the strange transitional left hand pinky cluster which looks like a combination of SBA and MarkVI. Notice how the pillars are angled like a BA/SBA where as on a Mark Vi the are all on the same level. I very briefly owned one of these (only for one day and then I got buyers remorse and got a refund). There are a couple of threads somewhere on the forum about these horns.

This is spot on, but furthermore, every Selmer model is like this. There are transitional BA / SBA's, Radio Improved / BA's and so on and so forth. These transitional horns are really normally GREAT. They combine the sounds and features of both models in a lot of ways. The best Selmer I ever owned was a 34,xxx transitional BA / SBA. AMAZING SOUND!