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Re: What is wrong with Buffet?

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2017-10-29 12:14

I hated orchestra playing and I hated teaching college. I found joy doing other types of playing and doing other things in the music world. Frankly I make more money than orchestra musicians, who also have to teach. Does this still make me a pro? There seems to be a problem with playing in an orchestra, using Buffet's and this is qualifying a person as a pro. I prefer to play solo works, quintets, things like that, does this mean I'm not a pro? I give master classes but I don't sit in symphonies. I hate them. Does this mean I can't give master classes?

So because I don't sit in a symphony does this mean I can't sound like Marcellus? Some people say I do. But I think I have my own sound. Does this mean I can't sound great on a Yamaha and I have to play on $18,000 to $20,000 instruments, or play on Buffet R13's that are made wrong?

Don't think so. I think it is surely time to rethink what or who and what makes a pro, not the dang horn. I studied with the very best so I should sound like the very best. If you don't you shouldn't be supporting Buffet. You should be asking them to make things better. Not defending JUNK. So do the players today sound like Harold Wright, Bob Marcellus, Iggie Gennusa, and a few other of the greats? Yes but just a very limited few. We should have 100's of people sounding like them, if the instrument makers did their homework. The sound is actually going the wrong way. Buffet should have built on the Marcellus and Harold Wright sound, mainly Gennusa, who people feel had the best sound out of the the including Marcellus. He played with a double lip just to try to get Iggie's sound.

I'm sorry I don't meet your standards as a major symphony player. This is a job I would surely dislike. I do not like sitting sometimes counting rests and then playing 4 or 5 notes and then counting rests again for 3 hours. Not every piece is exciting like Beethoven's 6th, 9th, 3rd, Mendelssohn's 3rd and 4th - pieces like that.

But at the same time Yamaha heard me on PBS TV and thought I sounded magical, so I do play, but not in the symphony world. Very few players are offered to be Yamaha Artist. Yes I hope Buffet makes it, but I'm getting a really great sound out of the Yamaha's.

Rating players with what horns they play on is like rating people with what types of breakfast they eat. Yamaha and Selmer's are both great horns. It's becoming a useless discussion. People are gonna buy Buffet R13's and hate them. Then people will find out how good Selmer's and Yamaha's are once they play on them and their ultra closed minded simple brains will change. A slow process. But one day it will click that they were wrong. The R13 bores really are horrible. It's that simple. Worse is they can't seal a pad. This is so sad.

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

Yamaha Artist 2015

Post Edited (2017-10-29 12:27)

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