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Re: Vintage R13 or Modern Professional Clarinet

Author: Tobin
Date: 2013-01-24 22:35

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New Buffet clarinets usually need adjustments when new from the factory to get them to play their best. This is because a fine clarinet will usually need some hand work. But many people expect perfection from a new instrument and complain.

Most of us have a problem with new Buffets because they arrive at the store with multiple leaks and adjustment issues, not because we expect perfection from an instrument that will never have it. There's a big market in "artist overhauls" of Buffets for a reason.

Buffet's are also assembled on an assembly line, by individuals who are not clarinetists. (I welcome correction on that one if others have first hand knowledge to the contrary). The Golden Era Buffet's were all hand assembled and finished.

The Yamaha brand is noted as arriving more consistently in top regulation. I only have experience playing one "new out of the box", and it was and is an excellent clarinet that a student of mine owns.

I have owned a 1967 Buffet R13 that I played with a wonderful sound. It's pitch was not perfect, but it was well within the standard deviation that Buffet's experience. I liked it more than another R13 that I owned from 2001 (which was a fine clarinet in and of itself).

James

Gnothi Seauton

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