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Buffet variability/bending keys

Author: Bill
Date: 2013-02-04 19:08

One thread, two topics: I just acquired Buffet 19764 (1935) because I loved Buffet 21634 (1836) so much. Tone-wise, they have nothing in common! The 19xxx is big-sounding and rich and dark (all invalid terms, I realize), and 21xxx super-focused, edgy, and bright. It's a wide-wide world! But apparently the Buffet factory in the mid-1930s was even wider. (Conversely, I find Selmers of that era rather depressingly even horn to horn.)

Second topic: I need to adjust a key on the 19xxx and I'm afraid I'll break it. The G#/D# pinkie key was set with almost no clearance at all. I thought I would get the other same-era Buffets, study the key movement/play, and try to adjust the 19xxx. But as I say I'd rather have a less-than-optimal key than a broken one. Can anyone provide suggestions for bending these brittle old keys?

Thanks.

Bill Fogle
Ellsworth, Maine
(formerly Washington, DC)

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