When was your Selmer Paris Saxophone made? This is the most accurate Selmer Serial Number Chart on the internet! Friend of GetASax.com Douglas Pipher has been given unprecedented access to the Selmer Paris archives, and after thousands of hours of research has compiled a brand new and more Selmer Serial Number Chart for Selmer saxophones. With permission, we have printed the results of his research below.

Jul 23, 2017  In 1996 I contacted Leblanc USA, after hours, and a nice lady faxed me a serial number list that they had. The list was not in their computers thus no one else was given this list. So I published it on the new website for everyone to have. Then I went on a search for serial number lists of my other clarinets, and the website grew from there. 1980 - 0 50 100 281228 Serial numbers prior to. Purchased by Selmer) 1965 1970 1975 1980 1983 SERIAL NUMBER LIST. 5 0 VITO ALTO CLARINET MODEL 7165 Year 1964. HISTORICAL DATA ON PRODUCTION APPROXIMATE AGE CHARTS: Olds.

If you are wanting to sell your Selmer saxophone, we are always buying vintage saxophones. Please contact us at Selmer Serial Numbers – a Fresh Approach Douglas Pipher, June 20, 2017 The existing Selmer Serial Number Chart has been available on the internet for years. Many saxophonists use it as the authority for determining when an instrument was made. But there are problems with the existing chart, such as the timing of the introduction of the different models.

It seems unlikely that every new model was introduced exactly at the beginning of a new year. It also seems unlikely that each year’s production ended at a conveniently round number. Was the chart built from specific data or was it just someone’s estimate; a guess which eventually became assumed to be an absolute truth? With these questions in mind, the need for a fresh look became clear, to see if there was a way to measure the accuracy, or inaccuracy, of the existing chart. Douglas Pipher decided to take on the challenge. Clearly the first step was to collect as much primary data as possible. It is well known that Selmer Paris possesses some archival records but they are not available to the public.

With a background in statistical analysis and an established record in the study of Selmer history, Douglas was able to secure access to these archives. Once there, the daunting nature of the task became apparent. The archives are comprised of a series of very old and fragile notebooks, written by a variety of people, in a variety of handwriting styles. Some were neat and detailed and others were nearly illegible and of course, it is all written in French.

But, the fact that all the data still existed was like finding a treasure. The archive records contain four key elements: – Instrument type (Alto, Tenor etc) – Finish and custom features – Shipping date – Destination In most cases, there was no mention of what model was being produced. Adrenalin 199 kryaknutij for sale.

The data started at serial #5000 and continued for over 75 years. Whether earlier notebooks were lost or were never kept is unfortunately unknown. The first phase of the research was to study the records from the beginning up to the end of the Mark VI era.

(1927 to 1975) After several trips to Paris and several thousand hours of research and study, the original shipping data was collected and organized. Finally, it was possible to do a detailed study of each year’s actual sales and compare them the to the information suggested in the existing serial number chart. Let’s take a look at 1927, the earliest year for which full data was available. The existing serial number chart showed a range from 5601 to 7850. By simple subtraction, 2249 saxophones were allegedly built in 1927. A search of the actual shipping dates for this serial number range revealed the following: Only 1537 saxophones within this range were shipped in 1927.