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Re: What is wrong with Buffet?

Author: seabreeze
Date: 2017-10-26 19:48

zhangray4 said ..."no one [on this list] likes Buffet." Not so! Most list members, especially those who have done pro symphony, opera, and chamber music work have played Buffet for most of their professional career. Many of the accomplished amateurs also were raised on Buffet. At least since the late '50s, Buffet has been the "go to" reference clarinet in the US. For 60 years in the New York Philharmonic, Stanley Drucker played Buffet. In the same orchestra today, Anthony McGill does. They both play a well selected, finely tuned Buffet Prestige R13 and sound terrific but with very different styles and tone concepts--all on the same really wonderful instrumental design!

I believe the complaint on this board is not that we don''t like and appreciate the contribution the R13 concept made in the clarinet world but rather that Buffet itself no longer likes Buffet. It has allowed its most iconic model to drift into mediocrity or worse. If you have to spend $7000.00 to get what Buffet used to offer for much less, you're going to start shopping around. And then you are going to find that while Buffet has turned its back on the model that made it prized and famous, it just may be pricing itself out of the market with its higher end models. For $7000.00 you can almost get pair of Yamaha CSVRs, a CSG ii with money left over, a Selmer Signature or Privilege, and for a little more a Backun Mo-Ba. That same $7000.00 can also be used as a big down payment on a hand-made, thoroughly vented and adjusted S & S.

If Buffet put a Brannen-like finish on its R13 including complete pad sealing, and tuning, and lowered the price on its Festival and Prestige models, you would probably see a lot fewer complaints here. Many of us on this list still like Buffet and feel that the company has let us down.

The other side of the argument could be that the R13 is produced at such a massive scale that quality control becomes impossible. Perhaps if Yamaha and Selmer had to scale up to the same volume of production their products would suffer in a similar way. Perhaps the same would be true of the Backun Mo-Ba and the S & S.

Post Edited (2017-10-26 20:15)

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