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 Re: Buffet Thumbrest Too Low
Author: GBK 
Date:   2007-09-27 21:09

Paul,

The nylon pin for the LH E/B, F#/C# is a serious design flaw with the newer Buffets and I hope that the MANY complaints about this issue will make Buffet reconsider going back to the metal tab insert, as was previously found on the last generation of R13's.

The nylon pin/dowel is unreliable, can break at an unexpected time, leaving the clarinet basically unplayable. Carrying a spare dowel (IF YOU CAN EVEN GET THEM FROM BUFFET) takes considerable time to fix during an emergency.

Asking around, the top techs, when overhauling or setting up a new Buffet, routinely replace the nylon pins with metal ones.

We had a long, interesting thread on this very topic, which I had started because my orchestra colleague had a nylon pin break during a rehearsal:

http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=238219&t=237119

...GBK
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