Klarinet Archive - Posting 000036.txt from 2006/03

From: "Rommel John Miller" <rjmiller@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Buffet R-13 Played and Failed
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 21:31:36 -0500

Mark,

Thanks for the advice, maybe this one is going to be the keeper, but I think
I had better let a trained and I mean a really trained and highly techie
type decide for me, they might know exactly how to tweak the instrument
right for me, or to really determine if it is another loser.

Right now, and don't get me wrong, becasue it is nothing you've said or
done, I am just down about the whole affair, I mean why should I have to
spend another $500 or a grand to tweak it into primo condition after I've
already paid out the wazoo for it?

After all mouthpieces some of can be pricy as can barrels. And the better
the mouthpiece or barrel the more the price. Just look at the prices Morrie
Backun gets for his Bells, Barrels and Mouthpieces.

But from what I've heard THEY ARE WORTH EVERY CENT SPENT ON THEM. Too bad
some of us are just too darn poor and have to go into severe and unecessary
credit card debt just to buy a Buffet R-13 that isn't what its made out to
be.

Not all of us are of "means" you know, I am a disabled veteran and I have
been declared unemployable by the VA, State, and SSA, it doesn't get me
squat more than I got before which wasn't much, and hardly enough to be
considered affluent by any interpretation of the word.

And yet I am bankrupting myself for a Piano becasue I love music, go figure.
And I fighting to get a good R-13 for the same reason. Go figure that one
out as well. And I'll do the same to get a Clarinet in A too, and a couple
of Saxes.

Some of us aren't made of gold or as lucky as some others, but I try, by gum
how I try.

Rafi

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Buffet R-13 Played and Failed

> Rommel John Miller wrote:
> > Secondly #3 played consistently flat on all three registers, huzzah,
another
> > loser!
> >
> Consistently flat? That's generally good news ... a mouthpiece or barrel
> might bring that right into line ... perhaps it isn't the clarinet (and
> if all notes are flat - it's not just the clarinet!)
>
>
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