Ok, so I'm putting this in repair rather than Selmer because I think this question is more likely to have an answer from someone browsing this section.
Sometime in the later run of Mark VI altos, Selmer put a patch inside the bow- most likely as part of their continuing experimentation with bow length and internal volume.
My personal experience is that these altos (with the patch in the bow) are excellent players, with a strong, full voice that seems to transfer much of the player's energy into sound, know what I mean?
So- anybody have any information on these horns? Which ones is it? Is it a solid serial run? Is it perhaps just the American-assembled horns? Is it catch-as-catch can? Why was it put there? Does anyone else agree with my assessment that these are particularly good horns?
Photos of the patch I'm talking about:
Yeah, its a particularly sloppy example, but they all have that shape in that location, with lots of solder- not just tacked in, or epoxied, or contact cement, or a different shape- the patch I am speaking about will look almost exactly like that, give or take a few solder blobs.
Sometime in the later run of Mark VI altos, Selmer put a patch inside the bow- most likely as part of their continuing experimentation with bow length and internal volume.
My personal experience is that these altos (with the patch in the bow) are excellent players, with a strong, full voice that seems to transfer much of the player's energy into sound, know what I mean?
So- anybody have any information on these horns? Which ones is it? Is it a solid serial run? Is it perhaps just the American-assembled horns? Is it catch-as-catch can? Why was it put there? Does anyone else agree with my assessment that these are particularly good horns?
Photos of the patch I'm talking about:
Yeah, its a particularly sloppy example, but they all have that shape in that location, with lots of solder- not just tacked in, or epoxied, or contact cement, or a different shape- the patch I am speaking about will look almost exactly like that, give or take a few solder blobs.