Klarinet Archive - Posting 000001.txt from 1999/05

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] The Moennig Challenge
Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 00:17:25 -0400

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From: WesGoFrank@-----.com>
Cc: LeliaLoban@-----.com>
Date: Friday, April 30, 1999 7:47 PM
Subject: [kl] The Moennig Challenge

>In a message to Francois Kloc from Alvin Swiney, Mr. Swiney states
"However,
>according to Hans Moennig, the original design of the 22,000 series R-13
>Buffet that Ralph McLane used did play in tune from the factory without
>extensive set up work." The 22,000 series Buffets were made in the 1936-37
>period. I note that Mr. Swiney quote identifies the Buffet that Ralph
McLane
>played as an R-13. So there is no doubt that there was an R-13 as far back
>as 1936-37. If the R-13 designation was an American designation, what was
>the identical clarinet in the 22,000 series designated as for the remainder
>of the world? It just seems too coincidental that Buffet would introduce a
>"new" clarinet in the '50s as an R-13 in America when there was already an
>R-13 [American designation?]. Buffet's answer just seems a little too pat.

The naming conventions was discussed at some length on the clarinet bulletin
board and you may want to review the material there. The biggest problem
that comes with this naming confusion is that a purchaser who is not aware
of the history of Buffet's clarinet development (and this naming
discrepancy) may purchase on of these older instruments thinking that he is
getting the polycylindrical bore design that was introduced in the 1950s.
i.e. The version the typical clarinettist means when they say Buffet R-13.
If he later comes across this information or the clarinet simply plays
differently from other (i.e. 1950s or later) R-13s, he is going to believe
that the seller cheated him when in reality the seller was simply uninformed
also.

Buffet has documented the fact that the polycylindrical bore was introduced
in the 1950s so an instrument bearing the name R-13 from before then simply
isn't what most people mean when they talk about models and model
differences.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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