Klarinet Archive - Posting 000144.txt from 2003/02

From: "Raycraft" <raycraft@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] vintage Buffet "A" clarinet
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:10:38 -0500

Walt,
I did end up finding the serial number....
it is 830G1...doesn't have all the cool extras
like the one you are describing, though it
does play real well. It would sure be cool
to have an alternate C#/G#!!!!
Do you have access to a serial number list
for the "A" models?
I am thinking I need to break it in slowly, like
a new one, because it hasn't been used for a
while. My Bb was made c.1936, and it had
been stored away on a shelf somewhere for
who knows how long. My repair guy said he
didn't think I'd need to worry about breaking
it in, so I started right in playing it for 2 to 3 hours
a day... Guess what? It got a couple of nasty
cracks in it within two weeks!!! Bummer.
I don't want that to happen to this one...
Sue
----- Original Message -----
From: <GrabnerWG@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] vintage Buffet "A" clarinet

> I am sitting here looking at a 1914 Buffet "A". Serial number 4J216.
>
> It was sent to me to be donated to Midwest Young Artists by Guy Legere a
couple of years ago.
>
> It's in my workshop for a re-pad.
>
> It has a wrap around register key, a low Eb, an articulated G#, and an
"extra sliver" key between 1st and 2nd finger right hand. The additional
sliver key is an alternate C#/G#. Wild huh?
>
> SO yeah, lots of extras. Plays pretty well too!
>
> Walter Grabner
> www.clarinetXpress.com
> Antique clarinet restorations
>
>
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