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RE: Buffet Clarinets

Author: Joseph O'Kelly
Date: 2002-02-08 19:58

The E11 is made in Germany while the E-13 is made by france. The e-11 is essentially the b-12 plastic model made in wood (from my comparisons.) Quite frankly i think the Germany Buffets (made by Shrieber) have intonation problems. I can not say this is a prooven problem but it's what i've seen recently on some of these Buffets recently. One of the problems is the short barrel provided with them. I think they're a .63-.64. I tried one with longer barrels of .65 and .66 and yet i still regester at about 15 cents sharp. I certanly do not have this problem on my personal instruments. This is the problem with my brothers b-12.
My friend has a International clarinet and has to pull way out on the center joint. He told me his tuning tendencies on this instrument and it was quite strange. This guy has a good ear for tuning so I trust this is pretty accurate.
The Germany Buffets, however (especially on the international) have nice tone and ecxcelent key design. My fingers just glide over them. I think the keys are plated better.

I think the e-13 is almost an equivlence of the old Master Models or academy models. Practacly r-13s that just didn't make the cut. I have not played an e-13 but do own an older master model and imho it is the best clarinet i've played thus far and I've played MANY. I have people who will back me up. This however applys to this specific clarinet. There were some great MMs out there and some dogs out there. I've played some of both.

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