Klarinet Archive - Posting 000278.txt from 2004/06

From: "Rodlfo J Salgado P." <munsal10@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Buffet Evette clarinet
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:11:10 -0400

Any comments on a Buffet E 11, wooden, made in Germany? I´m a amateur player
wanting to move on from it and I´m thinking on the R 13.
Rod.

>From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.net>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>Subject: Re: [kl] Buffet Evette clarinet
>Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:16:04 -0500
>
> > Up until 1983 Buffet made a plastic clarinet and a student wooden
>clarinet
>in Bad Nauheim.
> > These were made in the old Schreiber plant, as I understand it.
> >
> > The plastic, and the student wooden clarinets were not exciting. They
>also
>made a Master Model. The E13 too.
> >
> > In 1983 after Boosey & Hawkes bought them they re-designed the plastic.
>It
>became a very fine student clarinet.
> > Same with the wooden student clarinet. I did not see many of that eras
>Evette Master model. The E13 from that period was essentially an R13. I
>have
>a number of R13's --two are the pick of 120 I sold in 1975-76. My E13 is
>right up there with them.
> >
> > I have seen many E13's that are as good as clarinets that I sold to
>major
>Symphonies. I sold one to my clarinet professor Clement Hutchinson, who
>picked it out over 13 R13's!!!!
> >
> >
>
>
>E11 Evette (wood)(now available in a plastic model B11)(German)
>E12 the Master Model (not sure about where the Master Model was
>manufactured...pretty sure not Germany)
>E13 the Evette Schaeffer (made in France)
>
>The E13 was rumored, for years, to be reject R13s. I have never been able
>to
>confirm this. Perhaps François Kloc can elaborate on the history of the
>E13.
>When they were available and reasonably priced, I had many fine E13's come
>through my studio. I think marketing (perhaps I should say the market
>place)
>killed the E13.
>
>Forest Aten
>
>
>
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