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Re: Origin of R13 name

Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2010-06-16 17:14

I suspect Carl Fischer may have been careless/imprecise in its designations in these catalogs (and I suspect the copy was written by marketing people, not clarinetists). If you blow up the pictures that Susie Ray posted, you will see that the G# and A throat keys on the instruments pictured share a post. That is consistent with Buffets made in the 50s (or earlier) not the 60s. The prices of the instruments pictured, however, are Buffet prices from the early 60's -- at least 5 years after the full run-out of the Caree polycylindrical R13. I have a catalog that apparently dates at least a few years later than Susie's. In this catalog the R13s pictured (as well as the variations) clearly have separate posts for the throat G# and A keys. By then, Fischer had apparently updated its photographs. Even so, the clarinets are still referred to as "Master Bore R13s."

I suspect the person writing the copy thought "Master Bore" meant "bore created by a master" rather than the "cylindrical bore" that preceded the Buffet's polycylindrical bore (though I agree with Vytas that the term probably meant "cylindrical bore" to the folks at the Buffet factory). To support my contention that the copy was likely not written by someone versed in clarinet construction, I will point out that the ad copy in my catalog refers to the "conical hand-phrasing (undercutting of the tone holes) that Buffet has mastered" where the correct terminology for undercutting would be "hand- fraising."

Best regards,
jnk

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