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Re: Synthetic vs. real cork on tenon joints?

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2020-09-17 22:11

I had a pretty good side-by-side with a Buffet Divine purchased by my Army band. I was a bit taken aback by the "softer" sound that the RC based instrument was generating (the horn is outfitted with those grey synthetic corks that are meant to be used without cork grease).......so I went ahead and had it re-corked.

It didn't change a thing.

So in that instance I would say........NO.

I wanted to experiment with synthetic corks on my personal horn anyway and was told by my repair guy that he had the worst time trying to get the synthetic corks to adhere to tenons of other horns and basically refused my request to give it a whirl on mine.

When I went as far as requesting a special order horn from Buffet (for which they would charge $8000 for a horn anyone could buy for $4000) they refused. But did offer to provide the synthetic material and allow me to find someone willing to put it in.

So that's another issue.

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

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