Klarinet Archive - Posting 000461.txt from 1998/08

From: Shouryu Nohe <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] A nasty question about Buffet
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 16:22:40 -0400

On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Kenneth Wolman wrote:
> In any case, here is the inflammatory part. He mentioned, without malice,
> that if I ever buy a new R13, "make sure you buy extended protection
> against cracking." Huh? Ritter explained that the newer R13's are
> inferior to the older one in terms of wood quality, and that far too many
> of them crack in the joints the first year. He said he stopped carrying
> them new a few years ago because if an instrument sat in the case for
> awhile, and a customer came in to buy a new horn, the instrument would have
> grown a joint crack without ever having been played. He said he stopped
> carrying them as new instruments for that reason.
>
> He did not define "new" and "old," so I have no idea how many years back
> we're talking about.

Tell him to carry Greenlines. :p

Shouryu Nohe
Professor of SCSM102, New Mexico State Univ.
http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe; ICQ 6771552
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