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Author: Jeff Forman
Date: 2001-02-04 15:44
Look at this item on e-bay:
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Practically NEW SELMER BUFFET Bb Clarinet
Item #1407410825
Beautiful Clarinet with excellent sound and hard case. Used for one semester.
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Apparently Selmer and Buffet merged while no one was looking last semester. (there was no picture)
Jeff
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Author: Dee
Date: 2001-02-04 16:53
No they haven't merged. Someone has mismatched parts or case or mouthpiece or something.
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Author: deebee
Date: 2001-02-04 16:55
...maybe half a Selmer grafted onto half a Buffet...
Selfet?
Bufmer?
<font color="blue">8<font color="brown">^<font color="red">)</font>
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Author: Robert Gifford
Date: 2001-02-04 18:09
Probobly its a Buffet clarinet with a Selmer Mpc, and the guy just wasn't quite all there in the head :P
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Author: deebee
Date: 2001-02-04 18:17
...actually, if you <i>do</i> mix SELMER and BUFFET, all sorts of <font color="red">wonderful</font> and <font color="green">mysterious</font> things start to happen...
<font color="red">•</font> tree bluffs me
<font color="brown">•</font> strum f?...feeble!
<font color="orange">•</font> fems feel brut
<font color="yellow">•</font> meet buff rel's!
<font color="green">•</font> bee felt smurf
<font color="blue">•</font> suffer?...belt me!
<font color="purple">•</font> lust-free Feb?...m?
...sorry everybody...back to the score-paper...
<i>(fibbing - actually stuck in the html book of schoolboy silliness...)</i>
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Author: Anji
Date: 2001-02-05 01:40
It may just be the advertising ploy often used, searches will return both names and list the item.
It's sort of a "Billboard" approach, like "Sticky" websites and other noxious netizen nastiness.
anji
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Author: Cass
Date: 2001-02-05 11:57
Will Buffet and Selmer parts fit together right? Has anybody ever tried to play on a "mule" (hybrid)? Cause if people think it's a mutt then that "Billboard approach" might backfire and make people not want to bid. I assume you can't just mix and match pieces of different instruments like that, right?
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Author: Dave Spiegelthal
Date: 2001-02-05 14:33
I've built a few hybrids (various upper and lower joints/bells/barrels from various brands of clarinet) and...sometimes it works, sometimes if doesn't. You don't know until you try.
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Author: Dee
Date: 2001-02-05 21:54
As far as mismatched parts, we don't at this point know what pieces have which markings. If the upper and lower joints match, then the bell, barrel, mouthpiece, and case are very often physically interchangeable among the many brands. As to how well they play in tune, I can't say. And many times even different upper and lower joints will fit together.
It could simply be that the case is one brand and the clarinet another. Or it could be that only the mouthpiece is a different brand. In these instances it wouldn't hurt the playability. The case makes no difference and one would assume that a former owner had simply elected to get a different mouthpiece for whatever reason.
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Author: deebee
Date: 2001-02-06 05:20
Keil -
<font color="red">H<font color="yellow">T<font color="green">M<font color="blue">L</font> tags (I <b>finally</b> got through to chapter 15 in my "how to" manual!!)
What I don't know about is how to quote examples in text without activating them...
<i>...and I fear we may be sailing perilously into off-topic shallows</i> <font color="blue">8<font color="brown">^<font color="red">(</font>
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2001-02-06 12:27
Learn the "special characters" like <,>,& and how to write them, along with the <pre></pre> tags - but ...
please don't practice the HTML here. Try them out on your browser (as you probably noted, green on gray is hard to read, and if someone was green colorblind there'd be no message there!)
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Author: deebee
Date: 2001-02-06 13:28
Oops - ran aground when I forgot to take the main body of the text back to black.
As penance - no more rainbow-wannabes!... deebee ... 8^(
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