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The Selmer Mark VI is a saxophone produced from 1954 to 1981. Production shifted to the Mark VII for the tenor and alto in the mid-1970s (see discussion of serial numbers below), and to the Super Action 80 for the soprano and baritone saxophones in 1981. The sopranino saw limited production until about 1985.
www.selmer.fr. Henri Selmer Paris is a French enterprise, manufacturer of musical instruments based at Mantes-la-Ville near Paris. Founded in 1885, it is known as a producer of professional-grade woodwind and brass instruments, especially saxophones, clarinets and trumpets. Henri Selmer Paris was family-owned until 2018, when it was sold to ...
sonnyrollins.com. Walter Theodore " Sonny " Rollins[ 1 ][ 2 ] (born September 7, 1930) [ 3 ] is an American retired jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. [ 3 ][ 4 ] In a seven-decade career, Rollins has recorded over sixty albums as a leader.
Further ergonomic improvements were offered with the Mark VI introduced in 1953, which became the most widely used professional class saxophone produced in the mid twentieth century. King was the first manufacturer other than Selmer to adopt table key mechanisms derived from those of the Balanced Action, in 1949. By the late 1960s, the new ...
David Sanborn. David William Sanborn (July 30, 1945 – May 12, 2024) was an American alto saxophonist. Sanborn worked in many musical genres; his solo recordings typically blended jazz with instrumental pop and R&B. [1] He began playing the saxophone at the age of 11 and released his first solo album, Taking Off, in 1975. [2]
Eric Marienthal was born on December 19, 1957, in Sacramento, California, to Robert Marienthal, an insurance salesman, but moved to San Mateo when he was two years old. [3] He has credited his enthusiasm for music on being taught music while in school, and picked up the saxophone in the fourth grade after he thought it looked "pretty cool".
In terms of concert pitches, the alto saxophone's range is from concert D ♭ 3 (the D ♭ below middle C—see Scientific pitch notation) to concert A ♭ 5 (or A 5 on altos with a high F ♯ key). A few rare alto saxophones, like some Selmer Mark VI models, have been keyed to reach a low A, a semitone lower, similar to baritone saxophones. [2 ...
He has also been a long-time player of Haynes flutes. On tenor sax, he plays a mid-1960s Selmer Mark VI, and on baritone sax, a 1947 Silver Conn. In 2011, Slagle published a composition and improvisation workbook for the creative musician, including stories about his life, in "Scenes, Songs and Solos" (Schaffner Press).