Author: gatto
Date: 2017-09-11 00:00
I can confirm both. My RC Prestige in B-flat has serial number F419***, I bought it new in spring 1998. So it is very reasonable that it was built in 1996 (as the webpage claims). It was also sold as 442Hz pitched, which is the standard Boehm clarinets are sold here in Germany. The barrel length is 650mm.
The same holds for my recent RC Prestige in A, having serial number F689***, and it was said to be built in this year (though I guess it could also be 2016). Barrel length is 640mm.
My dealer (and repairs man) told me (when I asked him) that the length of the barrel is not the only difference between pitches a=440 and a=442. He told me, there is also a slight diference in the ton hole net. Though I am not sure whether he really knows this as a fact or if it is only his guess, the information on the webpage or in the catalogue of Buffet seems to confirm this indirectly for the RC Prestige, when compared with other (newer) models.
By the way. On my instruments I myself also tend to be much sharper then a=442 or even a=443. But I think this is better as being too flat.
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