Klarinet Archive - Posting 000134.txt from 1996/09

From: Robert Sales <rs@-----.UK>
Subj: FW: American vs. US clarinet market.
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 10:13:03 -0400

I think I'm right in saying that the R13 is the most widely used
clarinet here in the UK, probably since Boosey and Hawkes stopped
producing 1010s. Looks like another way in which Britain differs from
the rest of Europe...
Robert Sales

>----------
>From: Luuk van Buul[SMTP:vanbuul@-----.NL]
>Sent: 16 June 1995 11:20 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list KLARINET
>Subject: American vs. US clarinet market.
>
>Recent discussions on this list mentioned differences between the
>American and
>European clarinet market supply.
>
>As an amateur band player in the south of Holland I've played, seen or
>heard of
>the following types of Bb clarinets (from memory; don't quote me):
>
>Buffet Crampon
>- RC Most widely used, by amateurs and professionals, but
>ongoing
> rumours that new ones are notoriously bad and you have
>to try ten
> or more to find one good. (Price about $3000)
>- RC Prestige Same as above
>- E11 Cheapest wooden model of Buffet ($1000)
>- E13 I've seen them but don't know anything about
>- Festival Recently introduced; I've seen two new ones in one year.
>Both
> were bought by ex- RC players. (about $4000)
>- Elite Most expensive model. The last time I asked somebody:
>$6000.
> Only used by some profs. Looks very nice, without any
>rings on
> the outside.
>- ? I've seen several plastic Buffets but don't know the
>type.
>
>Evette Mid price Buffet type of clarinet.
>
>LeBlanc
>- LL Was widely in use (sixties and seventies).
>- L300 Only several years available (about 1980 - 1985)
>- LX Only several years available (about 1985 - 1992)
>- LX2000 Only one (?) year available
>- Concerto Available for the last four years. ($3000?)
>- Opus Most expensive LeBlanc ($4000?)
>
>Vito
>- plastic model, used for outdoor playing.
>
>Wurlitzer
>- both with Bohm and Oehler system. German bore. Almost exclusively but
>widely
>used by professionals. $6000 and up.
>(The Oehler system is not used very much anymore but it was thirty
>years ago.)
>
>Uebel
>- only seen one or two, German bore with Oehler system.
>
>Selmer
>- Series 9 I've seen only two in ten years
>
>Yamaha I've seen only one
>
>What I've never seen:
>R13 I asked someone working in a woodwind shop and he had never
>heard of
> this clarinet; this seems an exclusively american market
>instrument.
>Bundy From what I've learned from this list we should be glad we don't
> know these in Holland
>All these mouthpieces you're discussing. I only know of Selmer,
>LeBlanc,
> Vandoren, Buffet, Wurlitzer, Piet Jeegers (Dutch). No American
>mp.
>Reeds: Vandoren traditional, Vandoren V12 (these are the most widely
>used);
> Rico; Walter Boeykens.
>
>I've not seen any mentioning of the Buffet Elite clarinet on this list.
>Don't
>you Americans know them or do you find them too expensive for normal
>humans to
>speak about? :)
>
>Is Prestige a (selected?) good clarinet of a type like RC or is this a
>different
>design?
>
>Maybe somebody from LeBlanc or Buffet can shed his/her light on this
>strange
>diversion in marketing between the Old and the New World?
>
>Greetings
>
>Luuk van Buul
>

   
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