Selmer Paris Cornet - $400 (Silver Spring)

condition: excellent

make / manufacturer: Selmer, Paris

model name / number: 389

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Selmer Paris cornet, 0.456 bore. Very easy to create a gorgeous cornet sound. I bought it in 1997 from a member of the Buffalo Symphony (sadly, I can’t find my email correspondence with him at the time, because it contained a good story, but because I lost the primary source, I won’t assert it here). I had it overhauled in 1998 by Academy Music in Cleveland Heights, OH, one of the best brass repair shops anywhere. One customization added - the linkage for the first valve slide was modified to make it easily removable for draining and cleaning. When they overhauled it, they replaced the mouthpiece receiver, so it no longer bears a model number stamp (typically on the mouthpiece receiver on Selmer Paris brass instruments). But the serial number on the 2nd valve is 389, which according to one web site I found, puts the date of manufacture at 1937 or 1938. When I finally gave up playing trumped and cornet in 2008, I had it professionally cleaned by L&L Music in Gaithersburg, and have barely touched it since. Kit includes several mouthpieces, and an embouchure visualizer.

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posted: 2026-01-11 18:28

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