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Re: New Buffet R-13 opinions

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2017-10-18 13:35

The adjustments were getting the feel of the leather pads. This dulled the sound to me. I did do some pad changing. Also the pads felt a bit spongy. So on some of the keys on the upper joint I change the pads to cork pads. This helped get rid of that leather feel and dull sound from years of playing on cork pads. This also help with the sound. The soft leather to me was not the sound I was looking for and the harder cork pads fixed this. I would do this on Buffet clarinets as well.

With the lower register I had to bend a few left hand keys over a shade to match where the Buffet keys were. This was just a matter of taste.

Then a few weeks of scales to get the feel of the tension which I really prefer on the Yamaha's. I also had to adjust the height of a few keys, to fit my hand better, but I would do this on a Buffet as well. Lastly was the fullness of the sound. I changed the facing on my mouthpiece. This added richness to the Yamaha. During this adjustment time was enjoying the freedom of the upper register, above high C. I had to use more mouthpiece as a double lip player and this was such a wonderful thing to have happen. More of the reed vibrated and the sound was much warmer.

Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces

Yamaha Artist 2015

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