Klarinet Archive - Posting 000565.txt from 1998/08

From: <Felix1297@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 17 Aug 1998 20:15:01 -0000 Issue 400
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 12:39:12 -0400

In a message dated 98-08-17 16:15:20 EDT, you write:

<< I'm not sure of where the line is drawn, but when I mentioned the cracking
problem I had a few years back to Bill Brannen, he told me that the curing
process for Buffet clarinets after the 200,000 digit serial number had
changed. He wasn't specific except to say that the process is shorter
than it used to be. It was his opinion that more clarinets were cracking
as a result. Of course, this is a single person's opinion and it may not
be based in fact......but it helps define what "old" is vs. "new".
>>
Dear Roger,

We did change the process and ad high tech tooling to reach the highest
quality and consictency but we certainly not change to make it worst.Like you
said it is the opinion of one personn and I encourage every one to go to the
Factory if they are in France and I think they will see that we are still
caring about making good instruments.It is always easy to say thing like this
instead of trying to find out if the weather is not worst than before,If the
treatments musicians give to the intruments is not harder than before,If the
fact that now it is easier to go from place to place easier with flight and
other great transpotation solution all over the world couldn't have something
to do woith it too.I respect Mr Brannen a lot fom what I have heard about him
I never had chance to meet with him,but it is easy to say that manufacture try
to make bad instrument and sale it at a very high price.I am woodwind
instruments maker since I am 15 years old (I turned 31 this month):-(. and I
learned with Masters who tought me the old way and the respect of the
tradition.Every one at Buffet and at the other compagnies I worked at are that
way they CARE.It is not only a job it is a tradition and a passion.We are
proud of the instruments we are making they are part of us and this nobody can
take it away.

Musicaly Yours

Francois Kloc
Woodwind Product Specialist
Boosey & hawkes Musical Instruments Inc.

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