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Re: Buffet R13 'Limited Edition'

Author: MikeG
Date: 2010-08-29 17:14

Thanks folks, for the quick replies.

There isn't anything different about the instrument that I can see, I would agree it is just a "normal" R13 in the Limited Edition case.

It's a serial number 121xxx. I put that in on the Buffet site and it does not have it in the database, but then other references shows this as being produced in 1971, probably spring of 1971. I guess the Buffet online database is not complete for all #'s?

Found some more info on it. I was a college student at the time and my folks helped purchase it. Sure enough being savers of everything, they still had the original receipts and even some correspondence relating to it.

We bought the clarinet brand new in March 1980 from a shop in Portland. I guess it must have sat either on the shelf there or somewhere in inventory all that time. It was definitely new at the time of purchase.

There was some question even then about what the Limited Edition designation meant, and so my mother kept written record of a phone call she made to the New York distributor who confirmed it was an R13 produced in 1971, but not otherwise a special model in any way.

At any rate, I am happy to be back playing again. Just playing along with my son and this has also inspired some light practice. I am pretty rusty after all these years, but it is fun anyway trying to hack my way through some classics :-)

The clarinet itself still sounds great. At the time I bought it I remember I tried many different Buffet's and picked this one specifically. I had a Selmer (not certain which model) prior to that.

Thanks again folks. If anyone is curious let me know and I could send along a picture of that Limited Edition case!

Mike G

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