Klarinet Archive - Posting 000379.txt from 2001/01

From: Sherry Mayrent <oyfpro@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 11 Jan 2001 09:15:01 -0000 Issue 2824
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 19:44:33 -0500

At 09:15 AM 1/11/01 +0000, klarinet-digest-help@-----.org wrote:

>Is there any major significant difference between nickel and silver plating
>on a buffet r-13 besides looks and weight? I know that the nickel doesn't
>last quite as long or look quite as shiny, but are there any advantages to
>them. I'm sure if silver was totally superior to nickel Buffet would
>probably not sell nickel anymore. Thanks!

When I was purchasing a new instrument, about 11 years ago, to start my
professional career as a musician, I asked my clarinet guy (Albert Alphin)
exactly this question, since silver keys were one of the differences
between the R-13 and the Prestige Elite. He said that the metal vibrates
differently and some people prefer the sound with silver. While I always
think that those kinds of differences are too subtle to notice, whenever I
actually get down to choosing things, I do notice differences! I liked the
sound of the silver better than the nickel just as I prefer the silver
Luyben ligature to the gold.

It may be that silver is totally superior, but that that would price the
R-13s higher than the market would bear.

-- Sherry

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