Klarinet Archive - Posting 000048.txt from 2006/03

From: fgarcia@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] Buffet R-13 Played and Failed
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 12:06:05 -0500

I know I am going to sound irritating to some, but I changed in 1990
from Buffet to Yamaha. At that time Buffet could not make a good A
clarinet. If they did I never played it. But Yamaha was making A's that
were responsive (my old Buffet would die if I played the Pines of Rome
solo too softly, which was something I wanted to do), superior
intonation (combining the response problems with the poor intonation
made playing the solo in the slow movement of the Ravel PF Concerto a
real lip bend), etc. People told me it was the reg key vent. Why
couldn't Buffet have made a cl with the correct length of tube in my
bore? So I bought a Yamaha A. After that I tried a 8 Yamaha Beefers at
a store one day and would have left with six of them. I did not geek
out and try changing barrels to see if that would make a difference,
like I would have if I were trying Buffets. A few years earlier I had
tried some Buffet A's to see if I could find anything better than what
I had... and tried to make one work the way I felt it should. I gave
up. Maybe Buffet has changed. But from what I am hearing, they haven't.

I have a custom Yamaha barrel for my Bb that rings just as well as any
Moennig barrel ever made my Buffet ring. I am also playing Backuns
because they play great and respond so well. Plus they invite lots of
questions. But I say... to each his own...(oops his/her own).
Frank

On Mar 4, 2006, at 7:48 AM, Bill Hausmann wrote:

> At 07:05 AM 3/4/2006 -0600, Forest E Aten wrote:
>> > 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...
>
> It is about the most expensive one I know of, and I used to SELL them!
> And at that time, they were as inconsistent as Buffet clarinets.
>
> The head tech in our shop goes over each R-13 that comes in, and not
> infrequently rejects them as too bad to fix. Chipped tone holes seem
> to be very common.
>
>
> Bill Hausmann
>
> If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!
>
>
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