Klarinet Archive - Posting 000295.txt from 2004/06

From: <chamberlaind@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Buffet Evette clarinet
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:30:21 -0400

Rod:

I have two students who have moved from rental clarinets to the E-11s. The
improvement in their sounds was very evident. I have a beautiful R13 made in
1984 which I still use exclusively. Since I do play outdoors sometimes and
also because I may need a backup instrument, I have seriously considered
purchasing an E-11. With a fine mouthpiece ,ligature set up and of course
with the right reeds, an E-11 would be a good choice for someone moving into
the "serious" student level. Now, if money is not a consideration for you,
by all means, I would buy the R13 over the E11. However, I would never buy
an instrument without trying out several at a professional music store that
carries them. It has been years since I bought a clarinet so I am not sure
if one can order clarinets on line on a trial basis and try them out that
way and then send them back. I do know you can do that with mouthpieces.

Again, your mouthpiece, ligature and reeed set up is as important if not
more important as the horn, as far as I am concerned.

By the way, I started out (in 1964!!) on the Evette-Schaeffer model. It was
the most beautiful instrument. I am totally convinced had I been playing on
one of the Bundys that came out a year later, I would not be playing the
clarinet today. Wood is the way to go, the only way to go!

Kim Chamberlain
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodlfo J Salgado P." <munsal10@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Buffet Evette clarinet

> 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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