The following chart shows how rare each Selmer saxophone is. This is brand new information that has never been available before. It is thanks to friend of GetASax, Douglas Pipher’s painstaking work digitizing the handwritten Selmer archives that have not been widely accessible before now. So if you want to know exactly how many Selmer Radio Improved baritone saxophones were made (really not many), or how many Selmer Super Balanced Action Tenor saxophones were made (surprisingly few), this is the place to find out! How many Selmer Mark VI tenors were made? 83,530! Quite a few. Too bad they can’t all be 5-digit serial numbers, haha.
What kind of Selmer do you have? What are the biggest surprises from this chart? Let us know in the comments!
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Selmer Paris RI tenor
#19095
Still playing strong
I have a SBA tenor 54,499. I met a guy with a Mark Vi with an earlier number than that, which supports your charts.
Mine has the rounded Bb spatula, wire-style octave mechanism on the neck, high F# key, and the simple, mitre-shaped badge on the front of the neck. Serial numbers are stamped on the body, bell brace, and neck.
Your chart puts my horn at 1954. Thank you!