Author: John Peacock
Date: 2010-08-13 10:11
Dear Paul,
I assumed that people who like CSGs will generally have made that choice deliberately in preference to an R13, and didn't have the slightest intention of implying that this was an uninformed or incorrect choice. I just wanted to record that the preference ends up the other way around for me, and I was curious if others might have had the same experience, but not written about it.
As for tuning on the CSG, this seemed OK - but I didn't pay much attention to it, because the basic sound just wasn't right. Interesting you praised the volume, because I felt the opposite: no hint that I could get it to sing out in a big orchestral solo.
I don't know if my Buffets are unusual, but they do date from pre-prestige days, and certainly whenever I try out new Buffet models, they don't sound as good. As for tuning, nothing is perfect: the question is whether the machine is such that the adjustments you have to make are small enough not to get in the way of the playing - and I find Buffet pretty good in this regard (as good as perfect compared to Boosey & Hawkes, for sure).
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