These were made for Buffet by the workshop of Robert Malerne, likely in the 60's, and they are very nice sounding instruments. This one in particular is very clean, most of the lacquer is present, really no dings.
I'm impressed by these, the build quality is very solid, they look good, the key work is pretty comfy (like any horn you just have to get used to the ergos), but the sound really takes the cake........these horns sound fantastic!
This instrument was fairly picky about mouthpiece, the only ones it like were old French mouthpieces! For sure it did not like modern mouthpieces. I'm thinking it mostly has to do with chamber size, it probably likes a fairly open chamber.
I liked this horn so much I picked up an other one!
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