Klarinet Archive - Posting 000241.txt from 2004/06

From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Repair or buy new?
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:28:45 -0400

>
> Also, within the last 10 years the quality of the instruments, new, are
> going down. Older instruments have better craftsmanship and are, in truth,
> mostly better sounding then newer ones.
>

I haven't found this to be the case at all. The newer (a couple of years
old) clarinets that I perform on (Buffet R13's and Festivals) are better in
every way. I'm sure that you could find older instruments of superior
quality and newer instruments of inferior quality...but in general I find
that our current batch of clarinets available to players are (much) better.

Forest Aten

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