Author: R13A
Date: 2003-03-22 02:55
kemn
great for you to be considering adding to your 'collection'.
Although I have numerous R13's, I have a Bb/A set of Yamahas personally selected for me at the GR facility by my late friend and Yamaha artist, John Denman. (he did some tweeking) The 72A is equivalent to the CSA and my 82ll , the SEV. The bore sizes for the A and Bb are .577 and .580, respectively. And, I believe the .580 bore is currently used in the SEV model.
Both clarinets are silver plated (seemingly heavier than Buffet), have excellent workmanship and superb dark black tight, straight grained wood. They are free blowing and have good intonation. Yamaha's keywork was supposedly fashioned after the R13. Visually, this appears to be true and the 'feel' is quite similar (I think the feel of the silver plate vs my R13's nickel accounts for any difference)
I also have a yamaha 681 eefer and that too is superb and is at least equal to my 1959 Selmer eefer.. Like it's big brothers, the 681 has the same quality all the way around.
I can't exactly describe it but the Yamahas give a slightly different sound than the R13. Not better or worse, just a bit different.
In a discussion I once had with Linda Brannen some time ago, she mentioned that Bruce Yeh changed to Yamaha to get a specific sound that he was looking for and unable to acheive with the R13.
Like R13's, there are various used model Yamies around at much less than the original selling cost.
Well, so much for my 2 cents.
regards
dennis
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