Author: donald
Date: 2020-05-19 15:29
A decade ago someone started buying these off a certain website and importing them to NZ for overhaul/resale. One of my students bought a K series Evette that had really good intonation- better than any of the brand new (French) clarinets on the shelf. It was NOT a "reject R13" or with the same toneholes/bore as R13 (as others have noted above), it WAS however quite good.
I then went to the bother of test playing about 10 of these horns as they came in over the next 6 months (in each case, after a complete overhaul) and never found another as good as that one my student had bought. Most of the others, in fact, had glaring intonation flaws of a magnitude that dwarfed that of even a plastic student horn.
One was AMAZING, the others a waste of time. None of them appeared to be similar to an R13, or with same tonehole placement/bore.
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