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What makes for consistency

Author: SecondTry
Date: 2021-09-22 01:54

Ok--maybe this is more anecdote than fact. Maybe I'm painting with broad strokes here, having only experienced this phenomenon from the Buffet brand side of things.

That said, talk is that Yamaha professional clarinets are remarkable consistent.

Talk (and personal experience) is the Buffet professional clarinets are not.

Of course this isn't to say that a suboptimal Yamaha doesn't rear its ugly head now and then--possible remediated through bench work (or not.) And when one does come across a Buffet that "checks all the boxes" in almost seems worth the testing of less than great ones.

But assuming some truth to these stories, what interests me is the factors that go into Yamaha's relatively better consistency. It might be one thing if Yamaha wasn't also using African Blackwood and made their pro clarinets with some more dimensionally stable material.

Does Yamaha have access to better wood, better production methods, craftspeople, etc.

Or maybe the story is more myth than substance.

What do you think/know?

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