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Re: Doubts about new clarinet

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2019-07-17 22:20

Now now.

Finishing is different from the quality of the horn. I don't know about you, but I change almost everything about whatever clarinet I buy to arrive at a finished product from pads to spring tensions and even some key bending.

I love to include my experience with Wurlitzer, a company known (at least in the 80s) for their incredibly high hand made quality. Even with that, the finishing folks (whoever they were at Wurlitzer at the time) placed silencing corks OVER the adjustment screws of a key juncture rather than on the opposing side.

When trying out new horns I perform a leak test FIRST just to see where the horn is at. Then I take whatever results I get into consideration with the other things I know I'll change shortly down the road.

We all know that clarinets are not "tuned at the factory" (meaning we don't slap it together and miraculously play perfectly in tune with our peers without thought or adjustments), and we should not expect any clarinet to be set up exactly the way we want right out of the box either.

In short, Buffet top of the line horns are played by most of us for a reason.

.....................Paul Aviles

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