Klarinet Archive - Posting 000571.txt from 1998/08

From: "F. Sheim" <fsheim@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 17 Aug 1998 20:15:01 -0000 Issue
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 12:39:18 -0400

I am looking for places to go next summer, and I think that the Buffet
factory might be quite interesting. Can anyone describe the tour, and how
and where the factory is? Are there hotels nearby, and other sightseeing
places nearby? I don't think I would fly to France just for a two hour
tour of one factory!

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

At 09:34 AM 8/19/98 EDT, you wrote:
>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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