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Re: F-serial number Buffet RC Prestige clarinets

Author: John Peacock
Date: 2017-09-11 18:13

I remember reading on this Board a statement attributed to Francois Kloc (Buffet factory rep.) that the only difference between 440 and 442(F) models was that the barrel was 1mm shorter in the latter case. This sort of works out quantitatively: a Bb clarinet is 660 mm long, so a 0.5% change in frequency would require 3mm increase in length. But if you say that most of the time you're playing in mid-range with half the tube oscillating, a 1.5mm shift would do it. So supplying a 65mm barrel instead of 66 puts you in the right ballpark. Obviously on a given instrument just that change would sharpen throat notes more than bell notes and change the relative tuning. But the relative pitch of those notes depends a lot on mouthpiece and player, so I could believe that Buffet didn't think it was worth trying to tinker at that level.

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