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Re: older r13 vs new r13

Author: RLarm
Date: 2015-11-26 23:13

The best clarinet I ever played was an R13 that Jimmy Yan told me was from the late 50's or early 60's. What a sound! It was effortless and it fit the Buffet credo "the sweetest clarinet ever made." I never have played a Buffet before and after that had such great pitch. The low E and F played perfectly in tune!!! At a later time Jimmy told me that Buffet made changes to the R13 design in the late 60's or early 70's (might have been later) so the R13s that Bonade, McLane, and other legendary clarinetists played were quite different than the R13s of today. Why Buffet did this is very puzzling.

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