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Lou Donaldson playing a Selmer Mk VI alto Selmer Mark VI tenor saxophone Concert model with high F#, right hand G#, D to E flat trill and C to D trill using the palm key E flat. 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 ...
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 Argos-Wityu. [2]
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.
According to an April 1988 interview in the jazz magazine DownBeat, he had a preference for Selmer Mark VI alto saxophones in the 140,000-150,000 serial number range, all produced in 1967. From the late 1970s, Sanborn played with mouthpieces created by Bobby Dukoff .
Mark 6 or Mark VI, the sixth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible; Mark Six, a lottery game; Vox Mark VI, a 1962 teardrop shaped electric guitar; Selmer Mark VI, high quality saxophone line made by Selmer beginning in the mid-1950s; Mark VI class of industrial control systems used by General Electric
Selmer did not make many guitars — fewer than 1,000 — and the company stopped all production by 1952. Playable original Selmers are rare and command high prices. One of the largest collections was owned by Louis Gallo (1907-1988), a close friend of Mario Maccaferri, who also possessed blueprints of these guitars and was the consultant for ...
C. G. Conn Ltd., Conn Instruments or commonly just Conn, is a former American manufacturer of musical instruments incorporated in 1915. It bought the production facilities owned by Charles Gerard Conn, a major figure in early manufacture of brasswinds and saxophones in the USA.
Rectilinear III "Highboy" Rectilinear III Lowboy Rectilinear III (and others) grille emblem Rectilinear III "Lowboy" (and others) grille emblem. Rectilinear Research Corporation was a manufacturer of loudspeakers.