Klarinet Archive - Posting 001057.txt from 2000/10

From: Sfdr@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] R 13 "A Stock Number"
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 23:41:37 -0400

In a message dated 10/19/00 4:33:49 PM Central Daylight Time,
MHolmes@-----.org writes:

<< Terry,

According to the BooSey & Hawkes web site, the R13 was developed in 1955.
So the 1953 clarinet that you are considering must be an earlier model, if
all the facts are right.

I'm no expert and won't venture an opinion about this clarinet. I just
wanted to make sure you knew that it's probably not an R13.

Mike

>>
For the record, the R13 may have been improved or modified in 1955 but the
"Professional Model" Buffet Clarinet as we know it, has been around since the
turn of the Century. According to Hugo Schrieber, former president of the
Buffet Company. The R13 was a stock Number created by the Carl Fisher
Company during the 1920s. Carl Fisher was the sole US importer of Buffet
Clarinet for many years. If I remember correctly, there was also an R14,
R15, R16 and R16-1/2. Each Stock number denoted a key or pitch variation.
A. Swiney

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