Author: donald
Date: 2013-11-03 19:20
I regularly search various online auction sites for a Forte C clarinet, and only missed out on buying one early this year as the seller wouldn't sell to an international bidder.
The Amati C clarinets for sale are not the same instrument. That said, they are quite good... if you take the price into account, they are very good. A friend of mine plays the Amati C that is wood/silver keys and sells for around $800 to $1,000 US$. I would prefer this instrument over the Buffet RC prestige C clarinets that our local symphony owns.
The cheaper Amati C student clarinet is actually quite good for a student instrument, a store here in NZ stocks them as student rentals and once the mouthpiece has been replaced they play quite well. I'd be curious to see how well these play after a quality repad job, and some fine tuning details like pad heights, new barrel, and tone hole work if needed. The padding work done at the factory is not impressive, but functional, and I have a feeling that attention to this detail would help a lot.
My background, to put my opinion in perspective= I teach a number of students playing the student Amati, play professionally in ak and have had to negotiate the buffets mentioned above, played a Buffet R13 C clarinet (that was a very nice example) for some years in USA so understand that playing C clarinet can be quite rewarding and doesn't have to be a struggle.
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