Klarinet Archive - Posting 000590.txt from 1998/08

From: pollyg@-----. Gulakowski)
Subj: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 17 Aug 1998 20:15:01 -0000 Issue 400
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 22:27:54 -0400

P: BRAVO! I am so glad to hear from someone who takes pride in their
craft and has an ethic to match. It's always a pleasure hearing from
you, M. Kloc.

Paulette

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998 09:34:23 EDT <Felix1297@-----.com> writes:
>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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