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Re: What makes for consistency

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2021-09-22 02:31

One thing for sure is that Buffet kiln dries their wood in an effort to "crank out" the numbers they need in instruments. Thus rushed process can have an effect on the wood's stability. That said I'm sure Yahama must do something similar......it just hasn't affected their horns as much.

What happens between manufacture (where they tune the horns) and delivery (when you get the horn) is a lot of waiting and a lot of transportation. There could be less care in transportation for Buffets (cheaper by far to pick slower methods that don't use any temperature control). But I don't know if Yamaha bothers to do that differently either. However, on the Buffets, the wood "settles" or "changes" more than it should during this interim. Tone holes will lose round and or change dimension. Just minute differences in the tolerance of a tone hole can really jack up the intonation.

Just some thoughts.

................Paul Aviles

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