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Do I need to upgrade my clarinet for college?

Author: as9934
Date: 2016-07-01 00:23

Hello,

In August I will be starting college at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Although I'm not going to be majoring in Music, I will be taking clarinet lessons with the professor there and I'm wondering if I need a better clarinet than what I have now. I currently play on a 1970s Buffet E11 which I have always found to be very good, although without using my proper mouthpiece or barrel it runs a bit sharp. But when the clarinet professor from Western Carolina looked at it a couple months ago she said that the low E and the middle B were so out of tune that I should just buy a new clarinet. None of the other professional clarinetists I have worked with have said anything about this when they have tried my clarinet and I have never really had a problem with these notes, so I kind of question her judgment. But since I am going off to college I figure it might be a good time to get a better instrument. If I was to get a new clarinet, I would probably want to buy a used entry level professional clarinet preferably for only about $100 more than what I could sell my E11 for (roughly $700). From trolling eBay I have found quite a few options in my price bracket ($200-999) including the:

Yamaha YCL-34
Yamaha YCL-450
Yamaha YCL-650
Selmer Centered Tone
Selmer Series 9
Buffet Evette and Shaeffer E13
Ridenour 576bc
Leblanc Rapsodie
Leblanc Symphonie
Leblanc L7
Leblanc Sonata

If I was to upgrade which of these do you guys consider to be the best? Are there any others that I am leaving out?

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