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Buffet is not alone

Author: m1964
Date: 2025-04-18 21:02

This post may irritate the “Buffet mafia” people as well as anti - “Buffet” crowd too.
Just bought a new pro-level Selmer which required extensive adjustments, from springs that are too stiff to keys that do not open properly.
So, when someone complaints about their new Buffet not playing right, know that it is happening not only with Buffet clarinets but with Selmers too.
Never had a Yamaha so cannot tell anything about them.

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Re: Buffet is not alone

Author: Chris P
Date: 2025-04-18 22:58

Yamaha clarinets are still built how clarinets should be built, but their spring tensions are set too strong from the factory and they could do with using better silencing materials in certain locations for durability and reduced key noise.

I've already made my thoughts clear on the build quality of recent Selmer clarinets (and saxes for that matter), but that's only going to fall on deaf ears, just as anything negative said about Buffets is also ignored and they'll both plough on regardless of the problems they're both creating.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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