Bell Notes - The Selmer Mark VI, Bombs & Church Bells

[bajsmannensparty]

beautiful video bro.

[MarcusForschner]

Which mouthpiece he played at the beginning of the video? It sounds amazing.

[wideangleman]

From Wikipedia:

Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive... ...However, since "bronze" is a somewhat imprecise term, and historical pieces have variable compositions, in particular with an unclear boundary with brass, modern museum and scholarly descriptions of older objects increasingly use the more cautious and inclusive term "copper alloy" instead.

[stevierayDOM18]

@wideangleman I hava a question. I am a student who hopes to get a selmer for high school and I wanted to know if they still make the selmer mark 6. Is only a vintage instrument?

[wideangleman]

@stevierayDOM18

Hi, yes, it's a vintage instrument. Luckily, there are many out there, Selmer made them well into the 1970's. The later ones are more realistically priced in comparison to the general market for pro horns. They made the Mark VI soprano for quite a few more years as well. Good luck,

Randy

[gcrav]

Bronze is not brass.

[gcrav]

What a crock!!! The shell casing story is nothing but an urban legend. Did the sound of the Balanced Action magically change after 1945? No.

Dexter Gordon kept his Conn until it was lost in transit in 1965. Ben Webster gave him a MkVI to replace it. That was the end of the "classic" Dexter sound.

[altrane40]

@gcrav

Yeah, this is what you might call 'historical fiction'. And I agree that the 10M defines Dexter at his best. I also heard from Harold Ashby that Ben Webster didn't like the Mark VI the Selmer company gave him, and he stuck with his old BA. Dexter Gordon's "Homecoming" album, recorded in 77; In 1990 I got the double CD for $9.  It was the first Dexter recording I owned, and I first identified his sound with the Mark VI he played, and Woody Shaw is no slouch neither!

[bjerring87]

Thanks for a great video. The many hours i'll bet you spend working on tonequality really comes to evidence in this videos, and the saxes are just amazing. I would give my right leg to own a Soprano Selmer Mark VI. I've tried a couple of mark VI tenors, and the difference between them and my current SA2 is remarkable. Such a beautifull instrument.

Best regards from DK

btw. should you in any way be related to Jackie McLean?

[wideangleman]

Nope.

[TenorSax123]

I read on Sax On The Web that Barones and TK Melodies and CE Winds and Bauhaus Walsteins and Cannonballs and P. Mauriats and almost all other Taiwanese saxophones sound exactly like Mark VIs, and that most of them sound even better than Mark VIs. Is that true?

[pebblefrog196]

@TenorSax123 Nope. I've played some and some where great, some of them sucked ass.

[gcrav]

@TenorSax123 That's impossible to say because there's so much variability in MkVIs. Walstein (Chinese) is based on Yanagisawa. The others probably match the sound of some MkVIs, . The Barones and Mauriats are similar to each other and are often compared favorably to the MkVI.

[MrJeanPhilippe007]

@TenorSax123

I now play a Mauriat and it sounds much closer to my Chu Berry Conn then a VI. My problem with the VI is that the only one I like are over 10000$ in the states. I got my Mauriat for much cheaper, it got the sound of a vintage horn with the technic of a modern one.

[milnak]

Great video -- can you post the serial # and mouthpiece / reed / lig combos you're using in this video?

[MrSaxobari]

Al

Yhanks fro the reply.

Are you with EB HR Link on this video on (tenor)

Sounds,,just GREAT..

Regards

Mario

[MrSaxobari]

Fantastic video.

Mario from Canada

[altrane40]

@MrSaxobari

Thank you, Mario! It was a blast to make as well!

Al

[macksax]

Interesting story, I'm convinced that there is a GLORY on the Mark 6 selmer Saxophone now that I understand this story. I thank GOD that I own one. CHURCH BELLS ARE MADE FROM BRONZE, watch this, Revelation 1:15

His feet glowed like burnished (bright) bronze as it is refined in a furnace, and His voice was like the sound of many waters.

[raphyelrosby]

Come on Al :).....you know Dexter's best work was on a 10M....his work on a Selmer sounded nothing like his work on a 10M. Nice video man!!

[altrane40]

@raphyelrosby

I couldn't agree with you more, and that may be the subject of the next video...

Thanks for you nice comments!

AL

[memphissaxo]

This... is really awesome. Beautiful thought, that the sound of peace is made with the metal used for war. That the sound of freedom, played by so many black musicians whose ancestors weren't free, and white musicians who wished none of that had happened... was made using the same brass of the ultimate Powers of oppression. Wow. Thanks so much for doing this. And you sound AWESOME. I'm a fan (though I play a German horn)! Blessings, Kirk

[altrane40]

@memphissaxo

Haha! Thanks Kirk, enjoy your B&S;)

Al

[adamlowe1000]

Beautiful horns and great player ! High quality video !

[DustinLindenSmith]

Wow you guys, these videos just keep getting better and better. And this one featuring Al getting all spiritual and everything... :)

Thanks for the great work. I really enjoyed this.

[massidemarchi]

simply wonderfull!

[isaacimage]

Great Video !!! Great Player !!!