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Re: buffet festival

Author: Wayne Thompson
Date: 2003-12-10 04:30

Having bought a Festival last year, I find this an interesting thread. I enjoy hearing Francoise discuss this subject. He certainly knows a lot about the instruments, but his use of English combined with the impossibility of really describing the 'feeling' of different instruments means he can't really answer the questions clearly either. He has told me directly that the Festival uses the more dense 'Prestige' wood and I believe that. I can not believe Mark Pinner's suggestion that the P and the F have thicker walls????? 'Dense' does mean 'dense'. I believe the Prestige R-13 is an R-13 in every dimension, including overall thickness.
My thoughts on the Eb lever after a year: no big deal. I practice using it whenever possible, and it helps, but I already know how to get the job done without it. I don't find I hit it by mistake, but I do have to practice using it. I tend to rotate my left hand to reach it, causing a leak and a squeak at my left index finger if I'm not careful.
'What is flexible?' Francois has used this word to me also. He said that the Festival was undercut more than the R-13, and that this led to more flexibilty. My thought is that the word means that indivdual notes can be bent, ie moved in pitch, more easily. My Festival does seem more 'flexible' to me, but I'd need much, much more experience with other horns to prove the point with respect to other models or brands.
Feature for feature, the Festival certainly seems a good value. I wonder if the Festival receives less hand finishing than the Prestige. Is anyone with lots of set up experience able to comment on how the two horns are set up at Buffet? For that matter is the non-Prestige R-13 set up that much worse than a Prestige?

Wayne Thompson

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