Klarinet Archive - Posting 000469.txt from 1996/08

From: Luuk van Buul <vanbuul@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: final clarification requested
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 12:41:23 -0400

On Aug 16, Bill Fogle writes:

> I've followed the Frenchification thread because I think
> it's pretty interesting but I'm still in the dark. Maybe
> somebody can help me out. The "F" series (?) is
> or *was* Buffet's "European" bore (like RC) and
> the R-13 is the "American" bore, then? I hadn't realized
> the R-13 was an "Americanism" as such. I would have said the
> design, compared to Boosey & Hawkes and German
> clarinets, was super-French. I understood that a
> "French" bore was the narrow(er) bore now used most
> widely (with the Caree et al. modifications). Apologies
> to those for whom this topic is a "bore"!!! I would like to
> know. What is an "American" bore? (me?). ----Bill Fogle.
>
As far as I know, the R-13 was never sold on the European market. In Holland the
most popular Buffet model amongst professionals and better amateurs is the RC.
Furthermore I know Buffet sells some of their models in three tuning
frequencies: 440, 442 and 444 Hz. Whether this is a case of differing barrels or
differing bores/toneholes I don't know.

I was told by somebody from Leblanc they sell standard 442Hz in Europe and 440
in America. How you can tell the difference with a Leblanc clarinet from the
serialnumber or something I don't know.

Doesn't anybody know an e-mail address of Buffet? Somebody could compile all the
questions and (mis)understandings on this list from the past week and ask
somebody from Buffet to answer them.

Luuk van Buul (playing a Leblanc Opus on 442 Hz with a 66mm barrel)
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