Klarinet Archive - Posting 000044.txt from 2006/03

From: "Forest E Aten" <forestaten@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Buffet R-13 Played and Failed
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 08:07:07 -0500


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rommel John Miller [mailto:rjmiller@-----.net]
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 7:07 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Buffet R-13 Played and Failed
>
> Tom and the whole list,
>
> Just so everyone will know I just greased up the joints on #3 and the fit
> was a little tight, the bell joint was especially tight.
>
> So a tenon/joint fix is needed.
[Forest E Aten]

?

>
> Secondly #3 played consistently flat on all three registers, huzzah,
> another
> loser!

I doubt it....it's probably because you are coming from an inexpensive
student line clarinet...

>
> Let's here it for Buffet Crampon and the wonderful caring and concerned
> folks at WWBW who say they pre-test every instrument before they ship it.
> Sure they do.

They do...

>
> But I've heard it before and now I believe it, it takes maybe 10 tries,
> 15,
> 20, 30, 50 or 100 before you find that one sweet Buffet R-13 that Pierre
> cared enough to really pour his heart and soul into that day over in
> Paris.

Each clarinet is different....perhaps the one you like I would hate...

>
> How many will I have to play before I find one that'll play as in tune as
> the Vito student model that Larry Naylor refitted for me last year? I
> dunno, but I going to keep trying.

Get some on site professional help in this selection process..
>
> I just hope my Balwin/Hamilton 5025E Piano is going to be a winner when it
> comes, if not, then I'll know I am cursed!

It's an inexpensive piano...you get what you pay for...
>
> But my question is this, why can't Buffet make a consistently high-quality
> product? Its not like we don't hold them in the highest regard and aren't
> willing to pay top dollar for it, are we? I mean most folks seem to have
> or
> want a Buffet one way or another. They can't be as bad as all that, can
> they?

Buffet builds one of, if not the top professional line of clarinets in the
world. Most professional players in N. America use Buffet...who have you
been listening to?...
>
> It just gets old, this back and forth, exchange and exchange, and
> exchange,
> ad infinitum. What ever happened to ethics of care and quality control?
>

Ethics??? You have to be kidding, right?
[Forest E Aten]

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