DISCOVER THE TENOR SUPREME
After 100 years of innovation, design, and manufacturing of the saxophone, Henri SELMER Paris redefines the modern identity of the tenor saxophone with the Supreme. Two years after the release of the alto Supreme, worldwide success, the range is expanding with the arrival of the tenor.
The tenor Supreme achieves the feat of surpassing the flexibility and sensation of lightness found in historic models and combining those features with the precision and exactness of pitch found in modern ones.
It is both powerful and capable of infinite refinement. It allows for a an impressive power or a very expressive lyricism. Its dynamic possibilities go from a barely audible whisper to a wailing scream.
The creation of the Supreme embodies the culmination of an age-old savoir-faire combined with a perfect mastery of fabrication tools, all rising to meet the expectations of the Maison SELMER.
The tenor Supreme defies the natural inertia inherent to the tenor, offering a real sensation of lightness from the moment it enters the musicians’ hands, thanks a redistribution of its overall equilibrium and its compact ergonomics. This liberty manifests itself, above all, in the immense flexibility and suppleness of sound, previously unattainable in a tenor, which has been achieved with the new bore.
This new identity for the tenor Supreme is complemented by a creative, bold and innovative aesthetic that can be found in every detail of the instrument.
It has taken over 12 years to design the tenor Supreme, and to achieve the ambitious objective set from the beginning: to create the best tenor saxophone ever made by Henri SELMER Paris in terms of acoustics, mechanics, ergonomics and aesthetics.
Dozens of tenor players of all musical genres from around the world have participated in the various trials to define the many fundamental details which have given birth to the tenor Supreme: aninstrument with strong ties to its past, conceived for the music of today and tomorrow.
- Key: Bb
- Range: low B b to High F#
- Octave key system with Teflon inside the sockets
- Leather pads with rivetless metal resonators
- Metal thumb rests
- 3-point concentric clamping socket
- Adjustable nickel silver clamping ring
- Hinged toggle on left-hand pinky finger keys
- Right-hand F# / F direct adjustment arm
- Exclusive Supreme engraving
- Dark gold lacquer
- Concept Tenor mouthpiece
- Supreme Tenor exclusively designed case
- Supreme case / Concept mouthpiece / Neck strap/ Silk/microfibre textile / Body swab / Neck swab / Cork grease / Metal plug