For Sale



Times have changed. The urge to recondition clarinets and thereby get to handle lovely instruments has always been balanced against the tedium of the cleaning and polishing. The 74th and last is finished and sold. Putting the cleaned and repaired bits back together, setting up and testing is still great fun but I can only do that after all the pain! The scales have tilted back to modelling and electronics for the time being, although if anyone has an interesting project or an insatiable need, I might well be persuaded. This page lists what I have that should be sold. I shall probably be tempted again occasionally, but I think it will probably be the top end of the quality range; I still want to try Buffet and SML saxes for instance. If a low C bass clari appears ...

So, I haven't played my alto for a couple of years now. I prefer the Yanagisawa tenor and worry that my meagre talents are spread too thin with both saxes and the alto and bass clarinets. I shall never properly learn to play any of them but all of them is just ridiculous. Common sense says that something should go, so its all the saxes!

The sop.clarinets deserve to be played now they are fixed up and I have proved that I can't tell any difference between them.

Soprano Clarinets
Description Comments / Links Price (GBP)

Selmer RI (Radio Improved) 1930+
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Stripped, cleaned, re-padded. Old pinned crack in top joint. Good original case. 229 o.n.o.

Mouthpieces

I measure the lay of all my mouthpieces in 6 positions. All tables are checked for alignment (so they accept a flat reed) and trued if necessary. Any that are altered from the manufacturers dimensions, (or at least, the dimensions when I bought them!), have the marks obliterated and I quote the new tip/lay as a guide.
I have a few bass clarinet, alto sax and tenor sax mouthpieces to sort through so anyone keen to experiment get in touch.
To email me please use the following address; clive@ followed immediately by lynsgarden.co.uk



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