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Re: Boxwood Buffet Legende test!

Author: seabreeze
Date: 2018-01-25 22:50

Buffet has made boxwood clarinets for over 150 years. Here's a simple system Buffet clarinet from around 1880:

https://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/2562M/lots/32.

If you survey the auction sites everyday you'll see lots more old Buffet boxwood clarinets.

In the 1970's professor Bill McColl, who studied with Leopold Wlach in Vienna, commissioned Buffet to do make him a regular Boehm clarinet, probably with bore measurements similar to those of the R13, in boxwood. "One off" jobs like that have also been a recurrent part of Buffet's history. In the following clip you can see and hear Dr. McColl playing the Buffet boxwood with a chamber music group from the state of Washington: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCGnc7pWcsA.

I'm pretty sure that Olivier Patey has a modern (but pre-Legende) boxwood Buffet clarinet that he sometimes plays in the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Here's Patey in the Beethoven 7th: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Beethoven+symphony+No7+Royal+Concertgebouw+Orchestra+Ivan+Fisher.

In any case, Buffet is not a "newby" when it comes to making clarinets from boxwood. It is an old, seasoned veteran. The boxwood Legende is just one of its most recent ventures into that world.

Post Edited (2018-01-26 04:08)

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