Author: Douglas
Date: 2001-09-13 12:57
Thanks Jack K. for all the information. I agree with everything except that I have found that the B & K serial Evette & Schaeffers do seem to have been made at the same time, or at least they overlapped each other in production. The clarinet with K serials were made at the Nantes factory outside Paris and the B serials, at least the later ones, were made at the Schreiber factory in Germany. That information came from a worker at Carl Fischers in New York years ago, when Fischers was the sole importer of Buffet products. I also especially agree that the Evette & Schaeffers were not rejected R-13s. For that to be, the final clarinet would have had to be tested, rejected, taken apart, E & S trademark put on, and the R.H. sliver key (chromatic B natural/F#) replaced with a totally differently designed key which has end posts placed farther apart. The rejected R-13's were stamped Academy Model below the Buffet logo and marketed. Somehow,
The story about the Academy Model has been applied to the Evette & Schaeffer
E-13. For those interested, the E & S with K serials above 15000 are usually quite good and often sell for less than $200 on eBay. They don't have the sound quality of an R-13, but are very close and sometimes one will find an example that is outstanding.
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