Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2006-01-12 22:35
Get a nice secondhand, overhauled Buffet R13 for less than $1200 USD.
(Kids tend to quit in the Spring, there will be LOADS at auction...)
Make sure that the instrument has no cracks.
Pay with a credit card, to protect your interests.
If she eventually gives up the clarinet, this model will be the easiest to resell.
I don't play the R13, but it has such cachet among advancing players, that the second hand market seems constant.
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I'm a huge fan of the Ridenour TR147, and other LeBlanc derivatives.
It is, however, a hard-rubber body, and younger players often presume that wooden instruments sound better. SOME do, but not all.
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