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Author: Covertheholes
Date: 2006-12-01 17:08
Does anyone know when in 1950 the R13 was first available?
Further, is it possible that a professional model Buffet clarinet was made in 1950 before the R13?
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Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2006-12-01 19:28
Buffet certainly made professional quality instruments prior to Caree's turn at the design board. His version of the R13 came out in roughly 1955.
Search R13, Robert Caree and polycylindrical to hear the backstory.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2006-12-01 20:53
There's no information about the exact changeover, but I've seen photos of S/N 48707 (1954), which is pre-R-13, and S/N 48830 (1955), which is R-13. However, there were prototypes and intermediate instruments made before and after those dates.
Confusingly, the Buffet English language catalogs from the early 1950s used numbers based on the number of keys, not the bore design, and the standard 17-key/6-ring instrument had the catalog number R-13.
It's unlikely that a Buffet from 1950 is a Carré-design polycylindrical R-13. This is particularly so if it has the pre-R-13 key design, in which the throat A and Ab keys shared a post.
However, Buffet made top-notch clarinets before the introduction of the Carré instrument. They were just as popular among professional players as the R-13 was later.
Ken Shaw
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