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Re: has the quality of African blackwood gone down?

Author: GBK
Date: 2013-09-17 21:50

At a recent Clarinetfest, one of the Buffet regional reps mentioned a fact which caused me a bit of concern. He said that all the best billets of grenadilla (so-called "Grade A" stock) are now being used for the Prestige, Tosca, Divine lines, while the next best grenadilla stock ("Grade B") was currently being used for the R-13's.

Thus, if the quality, or grade of wood concerns you, perhaps this is even more of a reason to seek out the older R-13's of the 60's and 70's, since at that time it was the only top of the line clarinet Buffet was making, and was constructed with the highest grade wood Buffet had available.

It's also no secret that today's Buffet clarinets are aged less time than in previous generations and are heavily dyed to conceal some of the filler used to even out the grain...GBK

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2013-09-19 00:45

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2013-09-20 09:33

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2013-09-20 10:04

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2013-09-20 14:54

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2013-09-20 19:35

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2013-09-21 06:44

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2013-09-21 06:59

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2013-09-21 21:15

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