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When was the "revamped" Buffet 1193 bass clarinet put out?

Author: Katherine Handcock
Date: 2006-02-27 14:35

Hi to you all,

I know that Buffet's 1193 was "revamped"--improved keywork design, etc.--sometime within the last ten years. Does anyone know the date that the "new" version of the instrument started being manufactured? I couldn't seem to find a reference to the date of the change on a brief search of the Buffet web page. Thanks,

Katherine Handcock

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Re: When was the

Author: Chris P
Date: 2006-02-27 14:56

It must have been around 1997-1998 I reckon - I borrowed an early one of the new (or current) design back in early 1999 which had allen key heads on some of the adjusting screws.

As for the exact date, I don't know that.

But I ended up buying one in 2000 and this had normal slots in the adjusting screw heads.

The ones around 2001-2002 had different connections between the joints - the adjusting screws had polished domed tips and the connections were teflon covered, the earlier ones had teflon coated synthetic cork tips on the adjusting screws.

A more recent one I saw had a decorative turning part way down the bottom joint - maybe between the low E and Eb toneholes, somewhere around there anyway. Not sure why or if it was a one-off.

I know the bottom joint on mine (low C) has some filled worm holes in it, they haven't been filled all that well.

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

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Re: When was the "revamped" Buffet 1193 bass clarinet put out?

Author: William
Date: 2006-02-27 15:30

Hmmm........Lisa Argriss (Lisa's Clarinet Shoppe) told me three years ago, when I bought my new 1193-2 model (at IMS in Evanston, IL), that "all of those basses on eBay were the older Prestige 1193 models" and that what I was getting was "the newer upgraded version 1193-2". What upgrades(?), she was non-specific but I remember something about key action. Could have just been a sales pitch--I was just more interested in how the instrument in my hands played and not in her talk, so I did not press for more specific details. Just my .02 cents worth this AM.

(however, isn't bass clarineting fun--or what??)

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