Klarinet Archive - Posting 000373.txt from 2000/08

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Opposite register vent
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 08:37:41 -0400

At 10:45 PM 8/14/2000 -0700, William Wright wrote:
> 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.

And just to correct a VERY common misconception, not all Buffets are
R-13's. The R-13 model with its polycylindrical bore dates only to the
1950's. Buffet made many fine clarinets prior to that time, but they were
NOT R-13's, by definition. Actually, I suspect that my Carl Fischer might
in fact be a stencil Buffet from the 20's or so, since they were at one
time Buffet importers.

Bill Hausmann NEW ADDRESS: bhausmann1@-----.com
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