Klarinet Archive - Posting 000076.txt from 1996/06

From: Fred <fsheim@-----.COM>
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Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 17:03:53 -0400

>Wander Azevedo muses:
>
>>Since a long time ago, I've got a question twisting in my head:
>>at the same maintenance conditions which sounds better: an old or a new
>>clarinet? (The old violins sound better...)
>>
>>And... what is the "lifetime" of a Buffet?
>
>My repairman and guru Tony Valenti assures me that "Older is not, repeat
>not, better."
>
>Maybe so, but in the hands of an artist like Tony, I've been very happy.
>
>I'm playing two Buffets from the mid-sixties, and they're like old cars.
>They're great (maybe better than new horns in some ways, maybe worse), but
>they require occasional attention from a skilled mechanic. The old ones
>require different maintenance (rebuilding toneholes, replacing key bridge).
>I am currently trying GoreTex pads, which I really like.
>
>You'll never get my horns away from me!!
>
>BTW, I paid $250 for my Bb at Manny's in New York in 1966. I paid about
>$300 for the A, which I bought used, indirectly out a pawn shop in
>Mississippi in 1975.
>
>
My folks paid $188 for my R13 in December 1963- I paid $500 for my R13A in
1977!- both new! How times have changed! Got the Bb at Silver and Horland
in lower Manhattan and the A at Manny's in Manhattan.

Fred (fsheim@-----.com)

   
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