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SUPERB 1950 BUFFET-CRAMPON (Paris) R-14 (R-13 w/extra key) CLARINET, new pads
Estimated price for orientation: 1 895 $
Category: Clarinets
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Description Condition: Seller refurbished: An item that has been restored to working order by the eBay seller or a third party not approved by the manufacturer. This means the item has been inspected, cleaned, and repaired to full working order and is in excellent condition. This item may or may not be in original packaging. See the seller’s listing for full details. See all condition definitions- opens in a new window or tab ... Read moreabout the condition
WICHITA BAND INSTRUMENT COMPANY
2525 East Douglas Avenue
Wichita, KS 67211
Tel: (316) 684-0291; FAX (316) 68BUFFET-CRAMPON “Model R14”, #36,200, made in France in 1950. It’s a good and little-used example from Buffet’s “Golden Era”. Keywork shows minimal wear to the original unplated nickel-silver keys. No cracks to the wood, 100 % all new pads & corks wood quality and a rich tone-color. This particular clarinet is just about as fine an instrument as you’d find anywhere. PLEASE NOTE: Buffet’s model R14 is exactly the same as their model R13, with the addition of a ring key for the third finger left hand. The additional keywork makes it possible to play an Ab to Bb trill (upper register) or C# to D# trill (lower register) without having to utilize fake the fake fingerings necessary on a standard model 13. This is a really fine clarinet, far better, we believe, than anything made in France today. Have a look at Buffet's 1947 catalog / pricelist, photo attached. In 1947, the R-14 (exactly the same as the R-13 but with third ring key for left hand) was $25.00 more expensive than their R-13!I used one, half a century ago, for a few weeks when I was a student at Wichita University. A buddy loaned to me and eventually took it back. Once I got used to the "feel" of the extra keywork, I really quite liked the instrument. Wish I still had it!This clarinet is being sold with a photocopy of Buffet’s 1947 catalog, just to prove to the buyer that it’s a true “R-14” model. By virtue of the fact that we’ve been an authorized dealer for Buffet-Crampon clarinets since 1953, we confirm that we have accumulated quite a number of original Buffet clarinet catalogs and price-lists. Buffet’s current owners insist, in print and via their web-site, that the famous and well-accepted “Model R-13” clarinet was the result of the 1955 design work of Robert Carree, an employee of their workshop in Mantes. The implication is that any pre-1955 Buffet is not an R-13. Regretfully, this is incorrect information. In our library, we have original Buffet catalogs going back to the 1920’s. We note that clarinets marketed before 1947 were designated “Model 13” or “No. (number) 13”. But Buffet’s 1947 catalog clearly shows the current production as R-13 models. Hugo Schreiber, past president of Buffet-Crampon and (like me….) and a burned shareholder in the Tolchin Musical Instrument / Buffet-Crampon S.A. ownership, has been quoted as noting “the R-13 was a stock number going back to before 1936”. Which means that OUR firm prefers to note Buffet-Crampon’s “top of the line” clarinets made before 1947 as “model 13” and after 1947 as “model R-13”. Why it matters… I’ve used the same late 1920’s Buffet clarinet since 1963. In the past half century, I’ve play-tested thousands of clarinets and I’ve never found one I like better. It’s the reason I strongly recommend older “true vintage” Buffet clarinets. Better wood, better workmanship, more resonance. In our opinion, I mean. Think of it this way…. Italian violins, French Bordeaux red wines, British sports cars, beautiful ladies and BUFFET CLARINETS are all better if they have a few years of maturity!.............. In our opinion….. Wichita Band’s service warranty is the same as it’s been for more than four decades: “ALL new and all used instruments sold by Wichita Band Instrument Company come with our 24 month service warranty. It’s in addition to any factory guarantees. For two full years, we will repair or replace (whichever in our estimation is the more advisable), pads, corks, springs or other parts required, at no charge to the customer. In the event of cracked or damaged wood sections, we will repair at no cost to the customer or replace the section and charge the customer only for our net costs for the replacement section. Often, wood replacement parts are supplied from the manufacturer at no charge. The customer is responsible for shipping and insurance charges. Cases and plating finishes are not covered by our service warranty but are sometimes covered by factory guarantees.” Wichita Band Instrument Company maintains a repair department capable of restoration work of the highest quality. Even though repairs are essentially “free” for the first two years, after that period has expired, we remain at your service to maintain and repair your musical equipment forever. It’s our “service after the sale” promise and has been since 1953! In the event that a customer requires service under factory guarantees or Wichita Band’s service warranty, the item must be returned to us and not directly to the manufacturer. In January of 2016, our small workshop in Wichita celebrated sixty-three years in business. We are not in the 1952 Wichita telephone directory, but we ARE in the 1953. Over the decades, we’ve repaired and restored hundreds of woodwind instruments, specializing in 19th. century French flutes, clarinets and saxophones from the mid twentieth century and before. We employ sixteen highly skilled full-time workers and enjoy, we’re happy to report, a sterling reputation for top-quality restoration and ethical transactions. We are not amateurs, nor are we a “back bedroom” operation. We would be pleased to furnish you with references attesting to the above. **** WICHITA BAND INSTRUMENT COMPANY / WICHITA, KANSAS / USA ********************************************************************************************************Wichita Band Instrument Company is a small musical instrument emporium located in the center of the USA. We’ve been in business since 1953 and have had the same owner since 1963. Originally we were a repair shop that specialized in woodwind and sax restoration. Today we have 16 employees including six of the finest repair technicians in the country. Virtually ALL the items we sell have been fully reconditioned in our own shop, although we do sell the occasional unrestored historical instruments each year. It’s sometimes possible to buy a good saxophone on Ebay for a lower price, but unless that instrument wears all new pads and corks from a reputable shop, you won’t know how it plays until you spend another five to seven hundred to have it mechanically overhauled. With a saxophone from OUR shop, you know it’s in the finest condition when it arrives at your home! Here’s what we do to all the used clarinets we sell: The instrument is taken apart and everything washed clean. We don’t believe in chemical dips, but do use plenty of soap and water! All wood parts are inspected for checks and damage, polished and then soaked in oil for three days. After the body-shop work’s been completed, we swedge hinge-tubes tight again and re-fit to the clarinet body. Finally, pads and corks are replaced and the instrument play-tested. Most customers tell us that our clarinets are then actually mechanically better than new. Wichita Band Instrument Company maintains a repair department capable of restoration work of the highest quality. Even though repairs are essentially “free” for the first two years, after that period has expired, we remain at your service to maintain and repair your musical equipment forever. It’s our “service after the sale” promise and has been since 1953!In the event that a customer requires service under factory guarantees or Wichita Band’s service warranty, the item must be returned to us and not directly to the manufacturer. Anything we sell can be sent to you for a short approval period without obligation. We collect NO SALES TAX, unless you’re lucky enough to live in Kansas. The customer is responsible for shipping and insurance and must pre-pay back to us any freight charges on returned equipment. International shipping is available. Returned items will be refunded within 2 weeks of receiving the item. We’re happy to send any instrument on approval for five days, but ask the prospective buyer to pay shipping both ways and to please reimburse us for Ebay, clean-up and restocking charges (2.95%) on any returned instrument. VISA/MASTERCARD/DISCOVER/MONEY/BANK TO BANK WIRE TRANSFER/PAYPAL ACCEPTED. Credit cards not accepted from some countries. We must ship to the credit card billing address or paypal confirmed address with exceptions made only at our discretion. Please see our other auctions: Feel free to call or e-mail for any additional information.
Wichita Band Instrument Co.
800-835-3006 payment line (USA and Canada),
316-684-0291 outside the USA and Canada order line, and info line,
OUR STORE
Description
| Condition: | Seller refurbished: An item that has been restored to working order by the eBay seller or a third party not approved by the manufacturer. This means the item has been inspected, cleaned, and repaired to full working order and is in excellent condition. This item may or may not be in original packaging. See the seller’s listing for full details. See all condition definitions- opens in a new window or tab ... Read moreabout the condition |
WICHITA BAND INSTRUMENT COMPANY
2525 East Douglas Avenue
Wichita, KS 67211
Tel: (316) 684-0291; FAX (316) 68BUFFET-CRAMPON “Model R14”, #36,200, made in France in 1950. It’s a good and little-used example from Buffet’s “Golden Era”. Keywork shows minimal wear to the original unplated nickel-silver keys. No cracks to the wood, 100 % all new pads & corks wood quality and a rich tone-color. This particular clarinet is just about as fine an instrument as you’d find anywhere. PLEASE NOTE: Buffet’s model R14 is exactly the same as their model R13, with the addition of a ring key for the third finger left hand. The additional keywork makes it possible to play an Ab to Bb trill (upper register) or C# to D# trill (lower register) without having to utilize fake the fake fingerings necessary on a standard model 13. This is a really fine clarinet, far better, we believe, than anything made in France today. Have a look at Buffet's 1947 catalog / pricelist, photo attached. In 1947, the R-14 (exactly the same as the R-13 but with third ring key for left hand) was $25.00 more expensive than their R-13!I used one, half a century ago, for a few weeks when I was a student at Wichita University. A buddy loaned to me and eventually took it back. Once I got used to the "feel" of the extra keywork, I really quite liked the instrument. Wish I still had it!This clarinet is being sold with a photocopy of Buffet’s 1947 catalog, just to prove to the buyer that it’s a true “R-14” model.
Wichita Band Instrument Co.
800-835-3006 payment line (USA and Canada),
316-684-0291 outside the USA and Canada order line, and info line,
OUR STORE
2525 East Douglas Avenue
Wichita, KS 67211
Tel: (316) 684-0291; FAX (316) 68BUFFET-CRAMPON “Model R14”, #36,200, made in France in 1950. It’s a good and little-used example from Buffet’s “Golden Era”. Keywork shows minimal wear to the original unplated nickel-silver keys. No cracks to the wood, 100 % all new pads & corks wood quality and a rich tone-color. This particular clarinet is just about as fine an instrument as you’d find anywhere. PLEASE NOTE: Buffet’s model R14 is exactly the same as their model R13, with the addition of a ring key for the third finger left hand. The additional keywork makes it possible to play an Ab to Bb trill (upper register) or C# to D# trill (lower register) without having to utilize fake the fake fingerings necessary on a standard model 13. This is a really fine clarinet, far better, we believe, than anything made in France today. Have a look at Buffet's 1947 catalog / pricelist, photo attached. In 1947, the R-14 (exactly the same as the R-13 but with third ring key for left hand) was $25.00 more expensive than their R-13!I used one, half a century ago, for a few weeks when I was a student at Wichita University. A buddy loaned to me and eventually took it back. Once I got used to the "feel" of the extra keywork, I really quite liked the instrument. Wish I still had it!This clarinet is being sold with a photocopy of Buffet’s 1947 catalog, just to prove to the buyer that it’s a true “R-14” model.
By virtue of the fact that we’ve been an authorized dealer for Buffet-Crampon clarinets since 1953, we confirm that we have accumulated quite a number of original Buffet clarinet catalogs and price-lists. Buffet’s current owners insist, in print and via their web-site, that the famous and well-accepted “Model R-13” clarinet was the result of the 1955 design work of Robert Carree, an employee of their workshop in Mantes. The implication is that any pre-1955 Buffet is not an R-13. Regretfully, this is incorrect information. In our library, we have original Buffet catalogs going back to the 1920’s. We note that clarinets marketed before 1947 were designated “Model 13” or “No. (number) 13”. But Buffet’s 1947 catalog clearly shows the current production as R-13 models. Hugo Schreiber, past president of Buffet-Crampon and (like me….) and a burned shareholder in the Tolchin Musical Instrument / Buffet-Crampon S.A. ownership, has been quoted as noting “the R-13 was a stock number going back to before 1936”. Which means that OUR firm prefers to note Buffet-Crampon’s “top of the line” clarinets made before 1947 as “model 13” and after 1947 as “model R-13”. Why it matters… I’ve used the same late 1920’s Buffet clarinet since 1963. In the past half century, I’ve play-tested thousands of clarinets and I’ve never found one I like better. It’s the reason I strongly recommend older “true vintage” Buffet clarinets. Better wood, better workmanship, more resonance. In our opinion, I mean. Think of it this way…. Italian violins, French Bordeaux red wines, British sports cars, beautiful ladies and BUFFET CLARINETS are all better if they have a few years of maturity!.............. In our opinion…..
Wichita Band’s service warranty is the same as it’s been for more than four decades: “ALL new and all used instruments sold by Wichita Band Instrument Company come with our 24 month service warranty. It’s in addition to any factory guarantees. For two full years, we will repair or replace (whichever in our estimation is the more advisable), pads, corks, springs or other parts required, at no charge to the customer. In the event of cracked or damaged wood sections, we will repair at no cost to the customer or replace the section and charge the customer only for our net costs for the replacement section. Often, wood replacement parts are supplied from the manufacturer at no charge. The customer is responsible for shipping and insurance charges. Cases and plating finishes are not covered by our service warranty but are sometimes covered by factory guarantees.” Wichita Band Instrument Company maintains a repair department capable of restoration work of the highest quality. Even though repairs are essentially “free” for the first two years, after that period has expired, we remain at your service to maintain and repair your musical equipment forever. It’s our “service after the sale” promise and has been since 1953! In the event that a customer requires service under factory guarantees or Wichita Band’s service warranty, the item must be returned to us and not directly to the manufacturer.
In January of 2016, our small workshop in Wichita celebrated sixty-three years in business. We are not in the 1952 Wichita telephone directory, but we ARE in the 1953. Over the decades, we’ve repaired and restored hundreds of woodwind instruments, specializing in 19th. century French flutes, clarinets and saxophones from the mid twentieth century and before. We employ sixteen highly skilled full-time workers and enjoy, we’re happy to report, a sterling reputation for top-quality restoration and ethical transactions. We are not amateurs, nor are we a “back bedroom” operation. We would be pleased to furnish you with references attesting to the above. **** WICHITA BAND INSTRUMENT COMPANY / WICHITA, KANSAS / USA
********************************************************************************************************Wichita Band Instrument Company is a small musical instrument emporium located in the center of the USA. We’ve been in business since 1953 and have had the same owner since 1963. Originally we were a repair shop that specialized in woodwind and sax restoration. Today we have 16 employees including six of the finest repair technicians in the country. Virtually ALL the items we sell have been fully reconditioned in our own shop, although we do sell the occasional unrestored historical instruments each year. It’s sometimes possible to buy a good saxophone on Ebay for a lower price, but unless that instrument wears all new pads and corks from a reputable shop, you won’t know how it plays until you spend another five to seven hundred to have it mechanically overhauled. With a saxophone from OUR shop, you know it’s in the finest condition when it arrives at your home! Here’s what we do to all the used clarinets we sell: The instrument is taken apart and everything washed clean. We don’t believe in chemical dips, but do use plenty of soap and water! All wood parts are inspected for checks and damage, polished and then soaked in oil for three days. After the body-shop work’s been completed, we swedge hinge-tubes tight again and re-fit to the clarinet body. Finally, pads and corks are replaced and the instrument play-tested. Most customers tell us that our clarinets are then actually mechanically better than new. Wichita Band Instrument Company maintains a repair department capable of restoration work of the highest quality. Even though repairs are essentially “free” for the first two years, after that period has expired, we remain at your service to maintain and repair your musical equipment forever. It’s our “service after the sale” promise and has been since 1953!In the event that a customer requires service under factory guarantees or Wichita Band’s service warranty, the item must be returned to us and not directly to the manufacturer. Anything we sell can be sent to you for a short approval period without obligation. We collect NO SALES TAX, unless you’re lucky enough to live in Kansas. The customer is responsible for shipping and insurance and must pre-pay back to us any freight charges on returned equipment. International shipping is available. Returned items will be refunded within 2 weeks of receiving the item. We’re happy to send any instrument on approval for five days, but ask the prospective buyer to pay shipping both ways and to please reimburse us for Ebay, clean-up and restocking charges (2.95%) on any returned instrument. VISA/MASTERCARD/DISCOVER/MONEY/BANK TO BANK WIRE TRANSFER/PAYPAL ACCEPTED. Credit cards not accepted from some countries. We must ship to the credit card billing address or paypal confirmed address with exceptions made only at our discretion. Please see our other auctions: Feel free to call or e-mail for any additional information. Wichita Band Instrument Co.
800-835-3006 payment line (USA and Canada),
316-684-0291 outside the USA and Canada order line, and info line,
OUR STORE