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Author: Chalumeau Joe
Date: 2006-01-16 03:00
The Buffet web site shows video clips of their factory tour and states that the complete tape can be ordered through authorised dealers. I'm interested in getting it and asked my "authorized dealer" about it -- he had no clue what I was talking about or how any other details about it.
A couple of questions:
- Is the video still available?
- Does it have a reference number my dealer can refer to?
- Is it any good?
- How much is it?
- Are there similar videos made by others?
Thanks.
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Author: contragirl
Date: 2006-01-17 03:53
I wonder if you can talk to a Buffet specific dealer about it. Cuz there are music stores that are "authorized dealers," but some woodwind specific stores might know. I know Vincent Marrinelli (sp?) in Delaware sells only Buffet, and maybe Fred Weiner in NY(who sells ww stuff). Maybe one of them would know?
I am also interested in seeing this video.
I also heard about a video that shows info about the wood used to make clarinets, and how clarinets are made, exists. I think it was Selmer video and I think my college had a copy in their media library, but you can't check them out. That would interesting as well.
--Contragirl
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Author: Chalumeau Joe
Date: 2006-01-17 03:59
Great! Thanks...and I hope it's reasonably priced. Come to think of it, I should check to see if University of Maryland has it (I'm close to there).
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2006-01-17 17:07
There's an excellent video on the Mpingo tree that's been shown on PBS several times over the last 10 years or so. It has plenty of material on woodwinds, including the finishing process on a Buffet Elite and a bell shattering into a thousand pieces on a lathe in the Laubin worhshop. I've never seen a source for it, though.
Ken Shaw
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Author: GBK
Date: 2006-01-17 17:13
Although not a video on clarinet manufacturing, at the 2004 Clarinetfest Phil Shapiro (Davie Cane) was handing out free DVDs on the manufacturing process of Gonzalez reeds.
I don't know if he still has any available, but you could certainly contact him ...GBK
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Author: Douglas
Date: 2006-01-17 17:38
The video that Ken Shaw refers to was part of a PBS series titled NATURE.
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Author: Clarinetgirl06
Date: 2006-01-17 21:09
I do have a Buffet-Crampon video called Concerto for Mittens. Francios Kloc was handing them out at the OU Clarinet Symposium along with Buffet-Crampon T-Shirts. This video is for the 10 year anniversary of the Greenline clarinets. In the extras, they have you go into the Buffet Factory and you see the process in which clarinets are made (regular clarinets, not the Greenline). The background music is the Mozart Clarinet Concerto. This part has no words, but it's fascinating to watch. I've watched it 2 times and each time I was like, "Wow, ooo neat!". I honestly don't know how you can get a hold of this video though. The main portion of the video is about a man who journeys up a mountain in France and he brings his Greenline Tosca and once he gets to the top, he plays some Brahms and Mozart to show that a Greenline can withstand cold temperatures and not crack and still play in such cold! It's French with English subtitles.
Hope this helped!
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Author: DrGrip
Date: 2006-01-18 01:15
I went on holiday to Europe for the last 6 weeks... and I figured that if I was going to Paris, I may as well go to the buffet factory in France. So I went there, and believe it or not... I got a free tour of the factory itself and saw the people making the clarinets. It was fantastic.
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