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Re: Classic Bass Clarinets

Author: Chris P
Date: 2015-12-07 11:28

I'm just glad I bought my Buffet bass at the right time - I borrowed a 1999 model which wasn't long after their complete remodelling and also the bass clarinettist with the band I used to play in had one. The thing I wasn't too pleased about them when they were first launched was the use of Allen key adjusting screws (with hexagonal heads) instead of the normal slotted type which is easier to adjust on the fly with a screwdriver (as no-one's likely to carry small Allen keys around with them) and you can see the amount of adjustment by the angle of the slot.

But I got my bass sometime in 2000 when the exchange rate was in our favour and don't plan in changing it. The idea of a Selmer Privilege is a bit far fetched as it's an expense I could do without, nice basses though they are. My Prestige bass has slotted adjusting screw heads, so that's better.

I recently worked on the previous RC Prestige bass and it's a ridiculously overly complicated instrument in the amount of linkages it employs to do what should b a simple task - fortunately Buffet rationalised the entire mechanism to make the post 1999 Prestige bass a far more straightforward instrument to work on.

The RC also had a longer lower joint as all the keywork and toneholes are on it and there's a vent hole in the bell for the low C, but that extra length may not be suitable for some people should they not be able to find a suitably high chair. The current Prestige and Tosca (and Uebel Emperior) low C basses have the more traditional shorter (within reason!) lower joint with the bell key for the lowest note - the bell has a wide bow with the low C vent on the left side near the front.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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