Buffet Crampon are a french firm of woodwind makers. Two independent businesses bore the name of Buffet, that founded in 1831 by Louis - Auguste buffet (Buffet younger d.1885) who realised the reform of the clarinet introduced by Hyacenthe Eleonore Klose which resulted in the Bohem system: and that of his elder brother Buffet Auger, began in 1825. In 1830 Buffet Auger yielded place to his son Buffet Auger junior, who six years later married a Mille Crampon and attached her name to his own; the name has survived despite the firms many changes. In 1850 both F. Tourner and a brother Loius Buffet became partners, but the latter was replaced after 5 years by P. Goumas. For a short period thereafter instruments were marked “Buffet-Crampon F. Tournier et P. Goumas Successeurs”. In 1859 Tournier withdrew and a new company was formed by Buffet Crampon, P. Gormus and the claranettist Leroy, as Buffet-Crampon & Cie. On Buffet-Crampons death in 1865 Goumas became sole proprietor, bringing in two son-in-law in 1871. In 1885 Goumas sold out to Evette & Schaeffer who evedintly saw the wisdom of retaining the esteemed Buffet-Crampon mark.
Bibliography
C. Pierce: La Facture Instrumentale (Paris 1890)
- : Les Facteurs D’instruments de Musique (Paris 1893)
L.G. Langwill: An index of musical wind – Instrument makers Edinburgh, 1960, 3/1972
Our thanks to Oxford University press from which much of this information was sourced and particularly Groves
Music Dictionary.
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Buffet Crampon Bb clarinet Paris. C. 1910. Integral
barrel, Bohem system. Silver plated keywork and silver mounts, leather pads, blackwood. Buffet Crampon logo on
barrel and bell, Inscription BREVETTES, S.G. D. G. on upper part of instrument. Pitched at 440Hz. Example of
second hand instrument sold via Woodwind & Brass Ltd this year. |
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