Klarinet Archive - Posting 000370.txt from 2000/08

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Opposite register vent
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 06:11:06 -0400

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From: "William Wright" <Bilwright@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Opposite register vent

> <><> Bill Hausmann wrote:
> I have an old Carl Fischer A clarinet with the wrap-around octave key
>
>
>
> By purest coincidence, tonight I sat next to a gentleman whose
> clarinet was an old R13, and it had the same wrap-around register key
> (plus rings on all six holes). He told me that he bought it as a used
> instrument in the 1940s, and he believed that it may have been 20-40
> years old at the time.
> I asked him how it played compared to a modern clarinet. He
> shrugged and said, "This is the only clarinet that I've ever played, so
> I don't have anything to compare it with."
> When we were talking, I hadn't seen the comments here about
> durability; but I imagine that a wrap-around key would be hard to come
> by these days if it broke.
>

Just a bit of info. While his Buffet was no doubt a professional model, it
would not have been an R-13. The R-13 was not introduced until the 1950s.
Note that there was a discussion on the bulletin board (you can do a search
there and read the entire thread) about some marketing names that were used
by the importer in the US before that time. They were NOT Buffet
designations but those of the importer. These designations were names such
as R16, etc and included a name such as R13. BUT this was not the
polycylindrical R-13 that Buffet developed, named, and sold starting in the
1950s.

Dee Hays

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