#Selmer reference 54 how to#
#Selmer reference 54 pro#

From the checking around IвЂ™ve done, and from what Jim hasВ found out through personal experience, Kessler & SonsВ Music in Las Vegas, is a very good and reputable place to buy from if youвЂ™re willing to buy on line. But I know that if I were in the market for a new Selmer, IвЂ™d be contacting an authorized Selmer dealer, and talking with them at length about the original warranty, any additional warranty they might offer,В & their return policies.Д«uying online is another option, but especially then, you really have to do your homework. I obviously canвЂ™t speak to the consistency of all Selmer Reference hornsВ since I only got to play 2 that the Glass family owns. If weвЂ™re serious, and I mean serious, about buying a new horn, we need to do ourВ homework up front buy from a reputable store with a good inventory and with a techВ who we trust who can set the horns up before we tryВ them out. We shouldnвЂ™t just be satisfied with something mediocre when weвЂ™re dropping thousands of dollars down on a saxophone. The key point here is that Jim is fussy about who works on his horns, and who he buys his horns from. The other new Selmers that IвЂ™ve played have belonged to my students.В In the case of those horns,В I donвЂ™t know if they were checked prior to purchase, & if so by whom. Some of the new Selmers that IвЂ™ve had the chance to play have been at music stores, & had obviously not been checked by the techs recently, or perhaps at all, before they were put in the display cabinets.

#Selmer reference 54 pro#

(And Selmers are just as, if not arguably more prone to this, than some of the other pro horn makes out there.)

#Selmer reference 54 how to#

ItвЂ™s been said before on countless threads on sax discussion boards, but it bears repeating, a new horn needsВ to set up by a good tech (who knows how to work on pro horns) at a shop before a customer takes delivery of it. Now that IвЂ™ve had the opportunity toВ work withВ it, I would have to say that if something was to ever happen to my VI, and I would have to replace it, I would certainly be openВ to a 36. The only thing that IвЂ™ve found that might beat it, is the Reference 36 I had the chance to play.

I do find the key action a bit tight, but then it is still new, and mineВ has been specially set up for me.В But itвЂ™s really the closest thing IвЂ™ve come to playing that is anything like a good Mark VI. SuzyвЂ™s 54 Kookaburra tenor (pics in this post) is every bit the horn my VI is. Then I played Jim and SuzyвЂ™s Reference horns a couple of weeks agoвЂ¦My mindВ has been changed. I had played a fair number ofВ new Selmers in the last few years, and they were OK, but nothing special. I must admit, I went into this adventure of playing the new Selmer Reference Series tenors with a pretty much made up mind.