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Re: Should I get an R13?

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2017-06-17 11:15

Got rid of all of my R13's. However, I have NOT played on the 650 and the Tradition. I am very happy with the Yamaha CSVR's.

I've heard that the Tradition is very good. So you may wish to test out this new Buffet. Forget about the R13's for now. Lets see if Buffet gets their act together sometime in the near future. It's very hard to find a decent R13. They already got rid of the Divine. It was overpriced and very dull or dead sounding. They need to do this with some of their other horns and just make a great R13. Right now they don't. I felt this way about the Backun's but I think they are making some adjustments and they are not as dead sounding. I sure hope this continues.

I finally got a couple of new barrels I like for the CSVR's. These CSVR's play very well with the standard barrels, but I al always looking. You have to test them out.

As far as what your teacher said it is often hard to change someones mind and opinion. There are a lot of pros playing on the Yamaha's. I don't want to list them but you can find several in major symphonies around the world and right here at the movie recording studios in the Burbank area, most of them are playing on Yamaha's.

Some of the larger halls just sound better on Yamaha's. Close up Buffets sound very good, but if you get out into the hall your choice of sound may change. Yamaha's fill these halls.

As far as pitch, take a close look at the upper register of the Yamaha's VS the Buffet's. The Buffet's tend to go flat. Great effort needs to be placed into fixing this.

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