Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2019-04-19 11:02
Liquorice - I must add that there probably aren't any horns in my opinion that are perfectly tuned. I also don't think that any Buffet made has harsh sounds as I've played a lot of Buffet's.
On the video with Frost he uses a different fingering for the throat A which is fine with me, as I do too with the Yamaha horns. But as you said other notes were out of tune too. I agree. I was referring to an F by the way, but if you want to call it a G I'm surely not here to argue over a note. It wasn't Marton's piece.
My major complaint is the notes going flat in the upper registers as the bands and orchestras tend to go sharp. You can buy shorter barrels of course and also buy some places like mine that offer 442 pitch mouthpieces, but that's really not the answer as Buffet still doesn't get it that we don't want horns that tune to 440 and then some notes drop down below 440 as the brass and flute player, also oboes climb to 443, if the orchestras and bands tune to 441 to 442. This is just wrong. The rest of the world tunes to 441 to 442. I've been writing about this long enough so Buffet should be getting the message. Sadly they aren't. We need the symphony pros to speak up. Off hand I can't think of a major symphony that tunes to 440 or under. These include Boston, Chicago, Philly, Los Angeles, Baltimore, New York, San Francisco, so if there are others that tune lower I don't know who they are. I'm sure there must be a few. Same in Europe. Most tune above 440.
I've played these horns and they are nice but the bores are still too big. So you can't fix then by undercutting some of the holes as this will wreck the tuning of other notes. Oh, using shorter barrels does help, but often the 12th's are no longer in tune.
I do like one of the Uebel models for tuning. They make several models but I'm not sure which model I liked best. The price was a shade over $8000 I think. If you have the cash take a look at it. I'd rather buy 2 sets of Yamaha's for the cost of 1 Uebel. It's not gonna get you into the Boston Symphony by playing on a set of these $16,000 horns.
Cheers!
Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces
Yamaha Artist 2015
Post Edited (2019-04-19 11:33)
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