Klarinet Archive - Posting 000612.txt from 2001/11

From: Oliver Seely <oliver-seely@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Buffet DG "A" clarinet
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 12:17:38 -0500

Thanks Thomas. Your experience with Buffet mirrors that offered to many of
us who get less than adequate explanations from organizations who ought to
want to court us to keep us happy and to make money from us, but they
don't. Nice description.

Oliver

At 06:00 PM 11/19/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>> I believe it was (I think it is now no longer made) part of
>> the Prestige range of instruments.
>
>This is correct, they are Prestiges like the RC. Supposedly with a more
>"german" bore (dark sound, HiHi) .
>I own and use a pair of DG's. They were sold out here about a year ago for
>about 1800$ a piece. I was able to choose from a large stock of DGA's that
>were remarkably different to my and my advisors ears.
>Quite a few professionals in Switzerland and elsewhere bought them but the
>market was too small for Buffet.
>I like them very much and got excellent instruments for reasonnable money.
>My inquiries never met adequate information as to what exactly the
>differences of this model are, say compared to a standard RC. Buffet Germany
>wrote me, that this instrument "is particularly suitable for the classical
>player" (HoHo).
>Cordially,
>Thomas Schaffner
>
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