Cigar Cutter | History Notes

Through a fascinating and highly-documented web-series, collector Douglas Pipher recalls the history of Henri SELMER Paris and his legendary saxophones... 🎷
In the fourth episode, let’s dive into the history of the mythical Cigar Cutter, the first of the SELMER Super Sax.
🔎 Read the article : bit.ly/CigarCutter_en
🔎 Lire l'article : bit.ly/CigarCutter_fr

[@NicolasX-xg3fn]

Since 2003 i play a Tenor Cigar Cutter SSS and i can say it's the best sax i've ever played.

[@markwitty6405]

I have a Selmer Tenor with the "cigar cutter" octave mechanism ( serial number 17,359) and it still plays like a dream. Only 180 ever made . Amazing

[@avalemert]

How wonderful, and I'm so glad you play it, truly, to me, one of the saddest things is a beautiful musical instrument that sits forgotten in a closet. I imagine that your tenor has a distinctly different tone. I have a Buescher TT silver alto from 1925 and it has a very sweet sound, very different from my modern horns (I have a Serie III and a Yamaha alto as well)

[@rosshenderson1772]

I own one of the other 180 (17179), by far the best horn I’ve ever played.

[@alansenzaki4148]

Best informative video on this great alto! Thanks for posting!!

[@avalemert]

Fascinating!!!

[@leycroft5031]

Very interesting thanks.

[@rafaellezama3148]

Que cátedra mas hermosa, aprendo mucho