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Re: Different types of early R13s?

Author: John Peacock
Date: 2010-11-26 15:19

Ken: interesting. My interest in this was triggered by a 62,000 series model I got recently (it's a "GL", hence my interest in what this means). It plays beautifully, and I like the sound much better than with modern Buffets - but I hadn't felt any such great improvement when I tried the new vintages. It also seems to have tuning that's at least as good as modern models and I don't notice any issues with Bflat - yes I use a resonance fingering, but I also did this on my modern (well, 1982) Buffet. I've never blown an instrument where you didn't want to have fingers down for A and Bflat. Can you enlarge on the "intonation problems" you mention? All this makes me wonder even more if the change of name from "GL" to "France" at 62088 really did accompany some design change. I suppose the only way to be sure is to assemble a few models from 61,000 and 64,000 - but not even Nick Shackleton managed that.

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