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New Model Insanity

Author: RLarm
Date: 2017-07-12 01:46

I just saw the post on Buffet's new model, the LEGENDE. This weekend I saw the video of Istvan Kohan brilliantly playing the Messager on Yamaha's flagship model, the SE Artist, which Yamaha admits it doesn't know when it will be available in the US. (Bet you it is available in Europe and Japan!) Why are companies doing this? For example, why doesn't Buffet just spend more time to make the R13 playable right out of the box, instead of making us spend huge sums of money to customizers so that we can discover what the instrument is capable of doing? I feel sorry for the small retail stores who cannot possibly carry all of the different models. It sure was comforting to read Yamaha's own words describing the CSVRs and the SEVRS," ...these new clarinets are an exceptional product for the progressing clarinetist..." Well if these are step-up models they are exceptional step-up clarinets. Again, WHAT'S GOING ON???

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