Klarinet Archive - Posting 000349.txt from 1997/09

From: cray@-----.net (Christie Ray)
Subj: Re: Manufacturing deficiencies (was something else)
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 14:00:08 -0400

It doesn't excuse Buffet for the mouthpieces but just for anyone inte=
rested - we get our music store to replace the mouthpieces that come w=
ith the instruments with mouthpieces of our (the band directors) choic=
e. No way is a parent going to buy a new mouthpiece (at least in my a=
rea) after having bought a new clarinet - so we take that step out and=
just have the mouthpiece figured in on the cost of a new clarinet.
Cray

As the teacher of
> several beginners (or still close to it) I have a major gripe with
> Buffet, who turn
> out supposedly good student model clarinets, with mouthpieces even I=
,
> with over twenty years playing behind me, still find hard to play. =
It's
> like having a handkerchief stuffed inside the mpce while you play!! =
When
> Hite can turn out good (sorry, *very* good) mouthpieces which retail=
at
> under A$40, why can't Buffet do that in the manufacturing process, e=
ven
> at student level?? After all, the argument is the same - shouldn't
> the instrument come out of the factory in reasonable playing order f=
or
> the
> general mass of the experience level to which the clarinet model is
> targetted?
>
> Clare
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> Clare Pascoe Henderson
> variously clarinetist, writer/lecturer, herbalist
> chook fanatic and menagerie manager
> <chenderson@-----.au>
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