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Rare Clarinet SELMER Système MARCHI
The Series 10 followed on from theSeries 9 and Series 9* in 1968, while the Marchi system Selmer clarinet first appeared in the Selmer catalogue in August 1975,representing one of the major contributions of the 20th century interms of instrument crafts manshipand added repertoire.
Indeed, Joseph Marchi spent morethan 20 years leading research that brought about the addition of a 17 thkey, improving pitch and sound inhigh and top registers and extending the range of the Boehm system clarinet in Bb by an extra octave,there by preparing it for contemporary repertoire
