Klarinet Archive - Posting 000411.txt from 2006/03

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Buffet Quality Control (was Rossi quality flaw)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:50:54 -0500

At 03:21 AM 3/20/2006 +0000, you wrote:
>Bill Hausmann wrote:
> > We thought we were PAYING that price! Our store has been having less
> > than great luck with the R13's we have been ordering lately. Maybe it
> > is that no good wood is available any more, but if they can't cut tone
> > holes in it without chips or undercut them without leaving massive
> > chunks of material hanging, maybe they should grind the whole bunch
> > into powder, mix it with resin, and carve it into Greenlines.
>
>How does that compare to the non-Buffet clarinets you sell---do you deal
>in Selmer, Leblanc, Yamaha etc. as well?
>
>Alternatively, maybe you should try only buying Greenline. ;-)

We have a couple of Selmers, and some intermediate Yamahas. The pro
Selmers are a hard sell, because the great bleating mass of sheep comes in
wanting to look at the R13 and nothing else. No significant problems with
the Selmers, though. But the E11's we get in are even WORSE! Sometimes we
find post holes drilled all the way through into the bore! We have a
Greenline in stock now. As far as I know, it is OK.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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