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Re: Which £2000/$2800 Clarinet Would You Buy?

Author: SunnyDaze
Date: 2021-01-11 02:23

I bought a clarinet for this sort of price recently at a shop where I could try lots of them. From my experience I would say the most important thing is to actually try the instruments before buying as I found they were really radically different from one another, both in sound and in the position of the keys. I tried lots of different brands and different models including the Yahama 650, custom CX and the CSVR, and also the Buffet R13 and the RC, and several other brands too.

For me the Yamaha Custom CX was the hands-down winner, just because the keys fitted under my fingers best and the sound was far better than all the others.

Having said that, I've played a bit in an orchestra alongside semi-professional players and I notice the most wonderful bewitching sound seems to come from old clarinets. The two I am thinking of are both Boosey and Hawkes, along the lines of this one:
http://www.clarinetsdirect.biz/1010Bb-NC.html

I also have an old clarinet which has a sound that is just out of this world, but unforunately it is the very old kind that plays at the wrong pitch, so too old is also not good.

I think the thing is to try before you buy though. Good luck!

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