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 Leblanc's Concerto II Vs. Buffet's R13 Prestige
Author: roboduck 
Date:   2004-05-21 00:50

In terms of overall quality, key design, intonation, etc....
Which would be better overall?

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 Re: Leblanc's Concerto II Vs. Buffet's R13 Prestige
Author: licorice_man 
Date:   2004-05-21 01:21

I thought the Concerto II is more of a jazz horn?
How about including the Selmer Recital?

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 Re: Leblanc's Concerto II Vs. Buffet's R13 Prestige
Author: bkmorton 
Date:   2004-05-21 01:38

NO!!!
BUFFET FESTIVAL!!!
ALL THE WAY
PRICE
SOUND
I LOVE IT
I am not a salesman:)

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 Re: Leblanc's Concerto II Vs. Buffet's R13 Prestige
Author: roboduck 
Date:   2004-05-21 03:16

Recital?..dunno much about that one.....what's its feature?

As for the Festival.....i haven't heard much about that either.....


edit: just looked up the Festival...seems pretty good.....but what are Tenon rings?



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 Re: Leblanc's Concerto II Vs. Buffet's R13 Prestige
Author: Ralph G 
Date:   2004-05-21 04:12

Concerto II is not strictly a "jazz" horn -- it's an acoustical twin of the Opus II, a good symphonic horn. Eddie Daniels, though, does play the Concerto II, so it's versatile.

The Selmer Recital is a small bore, thick-walled clarinet. Said to be very heavy and capable of producing a very focused tone.

Tenon rings are the metal thingies that go on the end of the tenons of some horns. Tenons are the ends of the joints that slide into sockets. An upper joint has tenons on both ends, while the lower joint has a socket on one end and a tenon on the other.

You'll have to compare the Concerto and the Prestige yourself to see what you prefer

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 Re: Leblanc's Concerto II Vs. Buffet's R13 Prestige
Author: LeOpus1190s 
Date:   2004-05-21 22:19

These questions should be banned. They get the same old responses. If you want to know which is better... go to a music store and play them for yourselves... asking the the buffet vs. leblanc question will get you no where.

[ There are two of us who monitor this BBoard and set the tone via a set of administrator permissions. Those who don't want to read a thread (especially the kind that the explicit title of this thread describe) should just move on to a thread that might interest them. No one is forcing you to click all the links needed to open this up. Mark C. ]

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 Re: Leblanc's Concerto II Vs. Buffet's R13 Prestige
Author: Bradley 
Date:   2004-05-21 23:28

The Concerto II is definetly a better value going off of the prices. I'd say both are good instruments, and depending on the particular one you try I bet a player could like one just as easily as the other. The Buffet is well.......a nice Buffet- something many look for. The Leblanc tends to have better intonation and has the new key design- if that's what you're looking for.

Bottom line- "go to a music store and play them for yourselves" is the best, and probably only objective advice anyone here can give you.

Bradley



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 Re: Leblanc's Concerto II Vs. Buffet's R13 Prestige
Author: LeWhite 
Date:   2004-05-22 08:42

Mark C you close the threads YOU want to close, sometimes creating your own rules, as I've witnessed several times. The reason you gave me for closing one in particular was not listed in this website's rules, you just made it up. It was a perfectly good discussion about an issue that was important to me and I very much wished to discuss it.

Moving along, I agree LeOpus, just try a few horns and that will tell you which is best.



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 Re: Leblanc's Concerto II Vs. Buffet's R13 Prestige
Author: Mark Charette 
Date:   2004-05-22 14:17

LeWhite wrote:

> Mark C you close the threads YOU want to close, sometimes
> creating your own rules, as I've witnessed several times. The
> reason you gave me for closing one in particular was not listed
> in this website's rules, you just made it up.

That is absolutely correct, and will remain so. As I said above, the tone is set by the two of us, and the listed rules set the general case. not the specific, or they'd end up looking like the US Tax Code and would have just as many loopholes (and would be ignored just as often).

People who don't like what they feel are arbitrary decisions are still welcome to post. Discussions of those decisions can be done with me or GBK in private.

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 Re: Leblanc's Concerto II Vs. Buffet's R13 Prestige
Author: Synonymous Botch 
Date:   2004-05-22 20:11

No, he only closes the boring ones that have been hashed repeatedly.

MC does a terrific job supporting what is a FREE service to the users.

This kind of tire-kicking exactly the sort of thing every NOOB goes through,
some just come out of their haze sooner...

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 Re: Leblanc's Concerto II Vs. Buffet's R13 Prestige
Author: GBK 
Date:   2004-05-22 20:32

Synonymous Botch wrote:

> No, he only closes the boring ones that have been hashed
> repeatedly.


[ We also close the ones that stray too far off topic and stay there [wink]. As Mark has previously said, every posting is read by the two of us and many of the decisions that are ultimately made are done behind the scenes. The rules are a general guideline to be followed, but exceptions do occur. My email address (as well as Mark's) is easily found - GBK ]



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 Re: Leblanc's Concerto II Vs. Buffet's R13 Prestige
Author: LeWhite 
Date:   2004-05-23 02:54

Synonymous I'm no NOOB, I've been posting here at least 2 or 3 years now, not under the same name though. I might be considered relitively new since I know many have been posting A LOT longer than 2 years!

On with the topic...

Can the Concerto II really be compared to the Prestige? I mean, different bores, key design, designed at different times by different people in different places - they're just DIFFERENT INSTRUMENTS. Every individual has the ability to determine which is better for themselves.



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