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Re: old Buffet Albert in the key of?

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2010-10-12 16:40

Look on the bell, just above or below the logo. If it's stamped HP, it's at high pitch, which means it can't be used with modern instruments. You want to see it stamped LP. However, not all older instruments are stamped.

There's a store in NYC that has a 90-year-old high pitch Buffet in C that they claim is in D and want big bucks for. I brought in my C clarinet and a tuner and showed them that it wasn't in D, but about halfway between C and D -- that is, a high-pitch instrument in C. They said they didn't believe me. Damn fools. Too bad, too, since it played really well.

Ken Shaw

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