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Re: Jean Baptiste

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-12-20 01:24

Resurrecting this old thread because a student arrived at her lesson last night with a newly purchased Jean Baptiste CL67. This is the only thread I could find in the archive about the brand. With a fairly cursory look and quick trial playing, I thought it seemed like a decent student instrument. The intonation was good, the tone quality wasn't exciting but serviceable, and the student was impressed by how much easier the key action felt compared to the old junker she'd been borrowing from her school. It isn't what I think of as a clarinet-shaped object, Chinese or otherwise.

She bought it at Sam Ash, which fits with genekeys's comment 10 years ago that it is/was a Sam Ash store brand. I wonder if anyone here knows *for a fact* where these are made. CL67, which is explicitly a student-level clarinet, is the only model clarinet shown on the Jean Baptiste website. I've emailed the company (through the website) to ask them about the instrument, but I thought someone might have learned more about them since 2010.

Karl

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